Zered — H2218

Definition

locative proper noun

Zered, a brook East of the Dead Sea

1. Zered = "osier brook"
2. a river east of the Jordan, in the region of Moab and Edom, a source of the Arnon river

Usually translated as

Zered, Zared

Origin

from an unused root meaning to be exuberant in growth; lined with shrubbery

Occurrences

Zered occurs 4 times in 3 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (2)

• Numbers 21:12 — From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared (זָֽרֶד).
• Deuteronomy 2:13 — Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered (זָ֑רֶד). And we went over the brook Zered.
• Deuteronomy 2:13 — Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered (זָֽרֶד).
• Deuteronomy 2:14 — And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered (זֶ֔רֶד), was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.