1. Jericho (city) — The ancient city of Jericho, located near the Jordan River in the lower Jordan Valley; in the NT mentioned in connection with Jesus's journey to Jerusalem (healing of blind Bartimaeus, Zacchaeus), and the parable of the Good Samaritan (the road from Jerusalem to Jericho). All 7 occurrences refer to the same geographic location. Multilingual evidence is consistent: Hindi 'yariho', Arabic 'ariha', Korean 'yeorigo', Swahili 'Yeriko', Spanish 'Jericho'. Both clusters differ only in syntactic function (accusative/genitive vs. genitive with preposition), representing case inflection of one proper noun. 7×
AR["أَريحا","أَرِيحَا"]·ben["যিরীহো","যিরীহো-থেকে","যিরীহোতে","যিরীহোর"]·DE["Jericho","Ἰεριχώ","Ἰεριχὼ"]·EN["Ierichō","of-Ierichō"]·FR["Jéricho"]·heb["יְרִיחוֹ"]·HI["इएरिचō","यरीहो","यरीहो-से"]·ID["Yerikho"]·IT["Gerico","ierichō"]·jav["Yerikho","Yèrikho","Yérikho","Yérikho,","Yérikho.","Yériko"]·KO["여리고","여리고로","여리고를","여리고에","여리고의"]·PT["Jericó","Jericó,","de-Jericó"]·RU["Иерихон","Иерихона","Иерихона,","Иерихону"]·ES["Ierichó","Ierichṓ","de-Ierichō"]·SW["Ierichṓ","Yeriko","alifuatwa","za-Yeriko"]·TR["Eriha","Eriha'dan","Eriha'ya","Yerikho'nun"]·urd["یریحو","یریحو-کی"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
Ἰερειχώ (T, Ἱερ-; Rec. Ἱεριχώ; cf. Bl., § 3, 4, 4; WH, App., 155), ἡ indecl. (Heb. יְרִיחוֹ), Jericho: Mat.20:29, Mrk.10:46, Luk.10:30 18:35 19:1, Heb.11:30.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)