# H3381 יָרַד

יָרַד (yârad), Strong’s H3381: to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall);… KJV: [idiom]…

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*yârad* — to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall);…

KJV: [idiom] abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down…

Occurs 379 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָרַד 380 vb. come or go down, descend
- Qal 306
- a come or go down
- b go down (usu. from mountain or hill-country into plain), to battle
- c go down to (acc.) threshing-floor
- d go down (abs.) from Palestine to Egypt
- e from Jerusalem
- f from altar
- g go down
- h = sink, in water
- i go down to She’ôl
- j fig. going down (dissolving) in tears
- k = be prostrated
- 2 of divine manifestations: descend
- 3 of inanimate things
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to come or go down
- a bring down
- b send down rain = cause to flow down
- c = lay prostrate to (acc.) threshing-floor
- d bring down to She’ôl
- 2 take down (from cart)
- 3 let down
- Hoph.
- 1 be brought down
- 2 be taken down

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=5) — The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- [Genesis 11:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=7) — Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- [Genesis 12:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=10) — There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in…
- [Genesis 15:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=11) — The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
- [Genesis 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=21) — I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
- [Genesis 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=16) — The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her…
- [Genesis 24:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=18) — She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.
- [Genesis 24:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=45) — Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to…
- [Genesis 24:46](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=46) — She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So…
- [Genesis 26:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=2) — The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.