Strong's #3405: Yriychow (pronounced yer-ee-kho')
or Yrechow {yer-ay-kho'}; or variation (1 Kings 16:34) Yriychoh {yer-ee-kho'}; perhaps from 3394; its month; or else from 7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine:--Jericho.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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yerı̂ychô / yerêchô / yerı̂ychôh
Jericho = "its moon"
1) a city 5 miles (8 kilometers) west of the Jordan and 7 miles (11.5 kilometers) north of the Dead Sea and the first city conquered by the Israelites upon entering the promised land of Canaan
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
Relation: perhaps from H3394
Usage:
This word is used 57 times:
1 Chronicles 19:5: "And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown,"
2 Chronicles 28:15: "the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned"
Ezra 2:34: "The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five."
Nehemiah 3:2: "unto him built the men of Jericho. And next to them built"
Nehemiah 7:36: "The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five."
Jeremiah 39:5: "Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar"
Jeremiah 52:8: "Zedekiah of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from"
