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  • The word Cedron is usually connected with the root Qadár, "to be dark", and taken to refer to the colour of the stream or ravine; but its exact origin and precise meaning are really unknown.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Page view page image: the name Cedron; and the path by which they came through the woods he called Via Dolorosa.

    Margaret 1851

  • There is a question among expositors about the article in the plural number, and the accent in Cedron; and that upon this occasion, that it might not be thought as if any relation were to be had here to Cedars, wherein one hath been deceived when he thus comments upon it: "It is called the brook Cedron, that is, of Cedars, that grow there."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • But the next day the Romans burnt down the northern cloister entirely, as far as the east cloister, whose common angle joined to the valley that was called Cedron, and was built over it; on which account the depth was frightful.

    The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709

  • Today, the population of Cedron - or what would have been considered to be within the "city limits" - is only two: Suzy and her husband, Tommy Green.

    Was It Something They Said? 2006

  • The first of Suzy Green's ancestors to live in the village of Cedron, Missouri, was her great-great-grandfather, Ignatz Becker.

    Was It Something They Said? 2006

  • Chapter 18 1. When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Chapter 18 1. When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • NUMANCIA - Lopez-Cedron Miguel Angel in the 40th minute

    USATODAY.com 2004

  • In planicie huius vallis decurrit riuulus dictus torrens Cedron, secus quem habetur pulchra, et honorificata Ecclesia sacrosanctæ sepulturæ beatæ, et gloriosæ matris Christi: descenditur autem in

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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