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What does Jordan River mean?

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  1. A 251-kilometre (156 mi)-long river in West Asia that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and on to the Dead Sea.
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Its history began around 2000 B.C., when Semitic Amorites settled around the Jordan River in the area called Canaan.
The World Bank has selected two consulting firms to study the feasibility of pumping water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, the terminus of the Jordan River, via a massive and staggeringly expensive pipeline.
In this example, passage was used to describe a ford of the Jordan River.
Snow and rain have raised the normally placid Jordan River to unfordable levels.
He took away all my sins at the Jordan River and atoned for them on the Cross.
In 2 Kings Chapter 5, when General Naaman was healed of leprosy, he was told to wash himself in the Jordan River seven times.

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