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In

Israel Yisrael ישראל

the river Jordan

in Hebrew is:

Yarden ירדן

Meaning:

The Descender

Strong’s Hebrew: 3383. יַרְדֵּן (Yarden) — the principal …

The spring – maqor – חָכְמָה

Strong’s Hebrew: 4726. מָקוֹר (maqor) — a spring, fountain

Ayin – eye – עַ֫יִן

Strong’s Hebrew: 5869. עַ֫יִן (ayin) — an eye

Dove – יוֹנִים – yonah

Strong’s Hebrew: 3123. יוֹנִים (yonah) — dove

But how are they all connected?

To answer this question, our walk/halak/הֲלַךְ

Strongs 1981 halak/הֲלַךְ:

brought, come, go, walk, walking.

brings us to most important river in the land of Israel,

the Yar•den, ירדן, the Jordan River.

Phonetic Spelling: yar-dane’

The name

Yarden/Yardaen/Jordan

comes from the common verb

ירד yarad meaning:

to descend, to go down:

either literally down a mountain or

figuratively away from a place of prominence.

The noun מורד morad means:

descent or refers to something that hangs.

The Jordan River has its source

at Mount Hermon in the northernmost part of Israel,

Mount Hermon,

rises to around 9,232 ft. (2,813 m.) above sea level.

The Jordan flows into the Sea of Galilee,

and then out and

descends on down

southward to the Dead Sea.

Genesis 13:10.

The name Galilee is the Anglicized version of the Greek name Galilaia (Γαλιλαια), which means: Region, Rolling;

which in turn is the Hellenized version of the

Hebrew name Galil גליל or Galilah גלילה,

as it is called in 2 Kings 15:29.

From the verb גלל galal, to roll or encircle.

Dead sea ים־המלח Yam-hamelah means:

Salt sea,

from the noun ים yam:sea, west or future,

and the noun מלח melah, salt.

Because of the geography of the terrain, this river is

continuously descending

and notably the most southern part of the river has the lowest elevation of any river in the world. Its total length is about 125 miles (200km).

Today Yar•den, ירדן Jordan, is also a country, however during biblical times, this land was referred to as a region, which was mostly the land on the east side of the river. This area was under the control of the British from 1921-1946 and was called Transjordan.

The Jordan/Yarden is also frequently mentioned in the

Brit Chadashah/New Testament in Greek spelled Ιορδανης, Iordanes.

Biblically speaking, the Yarden/Jordan River played an important strategic role and it is mentioned several times as the eastern border of the land of Canaan/ כנען.

Canaan comes from the term kinahnu

meaning: purple dye; from the verb

כנע kana: to be brought into synchronicity.

The water was always

flowing/going down/descending from

Mt Hermon

חרמון

the name comes from the verb

חרם haram,

to designate or consign to the afterlife.

The

flowing/going down/descending

is simply because the principle source of the Jordan/Yarden is from the precipitation/rainfall on Mount Hermon; as well as three contributing springs. It also receives water from two tributaries; the Jabbok is the only one mentioned by name in Scripture.

Further answering this question of how they are all connected, takes us on a journey to a place called

in Hebrew

Aeiynon

and

Ain-Yon in Aramaic.

First of all we need to note that there is a site on the Jordan River in Israel where many 1000’s of people have travelled in pilgrimage to be baptised/immersed, believing that this is where Yeshua/Jesus was baptized/immersed by John/Yocahannon.

Photo above of the Yardenit Baptismal Site which is located just a few hundred yards/meters west of Hwy. 90, on a pretty stretch of the Jordan/Yarden River near the southern tip of Lake of Gennesaret, the Sea of Galilee.

We are familiar with the traditional pictures but it may not be the exact location where Yeshua/Jesus was immersed!?

Lake of Gennesaret is named after the ancient town of Gennesaret, also called Ginosar, on its northwestern shore. While it is a lake and not a sea, Lake of Gennesaret is also called Sea of Galilee, as well as Sea of Tiberias after the resort city of Tiberias that Herod the Great built on its western shore and named after Caesar Tiberias to gain favor with his Roman overlord.

Above is the entrance to Yardenit,

which in Hebrew means Little Jordan.

John 3:22 After these things Yeshua/Jesus and His disciples/Talmidim came into the land of Judaea/Yehudah; and there he remained with them, and immersed;

Immerse is baptize/baptizo in Greek,

and yitbol/tevilah in Hebrew.

These are the traditional sites

but what does the scripture say?

John 3:23

And Yochanan/John was also immersing;

baptizo, yitbol/tevilah

in Aeiynon.

near to the Salim, because there was

much (polus in Greek, le’rav in Hebrew)

water (hudor in Greek, mayimin Hebrew) there:

and they came, and were

immersed baptizo, yitaveilu/tevilah.

Strong’s Hebrew: 4325. מָ֫יִם (mayim) — waters, water

מיים חיים

Mayyim Hayyim

is Hebrew for

living waters

baptized.
ἐβάπτιζεν (ebaptizen)
Verb – Imperfect Indicative Active – 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s 907: Lit: I dip, submerge, but specifically of ceremonial dipping; I baptize

We known from John 4:2 that it was not Yeshua/Jesus but His disciples/talmidim, who performed the immersions. The immersion attributed to Yeshua/Jesus is the immersion He makes possible. Simply put, His immersion teaching was manifest in practical terms by way of the participation of His disciples/talmidim.

Here the Hebrew immersion is

טבילה tevilah

Tevilah is the Biblical act of immersing oneself in a natural living water source for ritual cleansing of sin; and symbolizing death to the self-centered ego and rebirth to a new spiritual life of selfless love; in harmony with the principles of God’s law of love – Torah.

In ancient times a stream or river was used, but in modern times a specially constructed pool called a mikveh is normally used

Mikveh or mikvah

מִקְוֶה / מקווה‎,

מַקְוֶה Miqveh –

pronounced: mik veh

and means:

abiding, gathering together, hope, plenty of water, pool.

While the word מקוה – miqveh means pool in Biblical Hebrew, the modern Hebrew word for a pool is בריכה – beriykhah,

which comes from the verb

ברך meaning: to kneel.

The word Miqveh in Hebrew also means hope.

When we submit/kneel to His commandments…

Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;

..we have hope for a positive outcome and this hope/tiqvah becomes the anchor/o’gehn of our faith/emunah.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-secret-of-the-ogehn-of-tiqvah/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-secret-of-ogehn-of-tiqvah-part-2/

H4723 Original: מּקוא מקוה מקוה

Transliteration: miqveh miqvêh miqvê’

other Definitions as well as hope are:

ground of hope. things hoped for, outcome, collection, gathering together, pool {mik-vay’};

from qavah; something waited for:

i.e. Confidence (objective or subjective);

also a collection, i.e. (of water) a pond.

ה טָבַל Tabalah immersion = sinking until covered completely with water.

טָבַל Tabal tawbal = to dip dipped plunge/Baptism.

Biblical Hebrew uses the root:

ṭaval טבל – for immersion.

The definition of tevilah is:

full body immersion in a mikvah, is the biblical act of

immersing oneself

in a natural living water source, ritual washing in water for ritual cleansing of sin and symbolizing death to the self life.

Ritual immersion – tevilah mayyim hayyim

The identification of the site of Aenon, near Saleim,

does not finally confirm the place where He was staying/tarrying

or the ministry of immersion.

We are expressly told, both here and in John 4:3, that it was

in Judaea, not Samaria,

that Jesus/Yeshua tarried there with them, and was immersing/baptizing. The words suggest a longer stay, and a type of ministry which after that time He laid aside.

Aenon in John 4:3 is said to be near Salim: it was the name of a city, as some think; others say, a river or brook near that city: neither the river nor the city are elsewhere mentioned in Scripture.

It has been placed by topographers as being on the eastern part of the land of Manasseh, not far from Beth-shan or Scythopolis.

There John was baptizing; because this Aenon was a brook or river that had much water, which in Judea was rare.

John the Baptist,

He is sometimes alternatively called

John the Baptizer
יוחנן המטביל

The name John

is a theophoric name originating from the Hebrew name:

יוֹחָנָן‎ Yôḥānān,

the Hebrew original, Johanan,

or in its longer form יְהוֹחָנָן‎ Yəhôḥānān.

From יה (yah), the shortened name of the Lord,

and the verb חנן (hanan), to be gracious or to favor.

The meaning: Yah or, Yahweh has been gracious.

The Hebrew name was adopted as:

Ἰωάννης Iōánnēs in Biblical Greek.

also means:

YHVH gracious giver or gift of God.

Where is Aeiyon/Aenon near to the Salim?

The locality is described as

Αἰνὼν ἐγγὺς τοῦ Σαλείμ.

“The Salim of this place is no doubt the

Shalem of Genesis 33:18,

and some seven miles north is ’Ainûn [= Springs], at the head of the Wâdy Fâr’ah, which is the great highway up from the Damieh ford for those coming from the east by the way of Peniel and Succoth” (Henderson’s Palestine, p. 154).