Jericho in der Bibel: Was der Name bedeutet und die geistliche Bedeutung von Jericho



  • Jericho was the first city Israel took in the promised land, and God told Joshua “I have given into thine hand Jericho” before the march began (Joshua 6:2).
  • No one is sure what the Hebrew name Yericho means: Strong’s offers a root meaning the moon or one meaning “fragrant”, and Scripture calls it “the city of palm trees”.
  • Israel umrundete die Stadt sechs Tage lang einmal täglich und am siebten Tag siebenmal, und die Mauer fiel beim Jubelgeschrei; Hebräer 11,30 schreibt dies dem Glauben zu.
  • Rahab, who hid Joshua’s spies, was spared with her family and is praised in Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25; at Jericho Jesus healed blind Bartimaeus and stayed with Zacchaeus, saying “This day is salvation come to this house”.
  • A “Jericho” or Siege of Jericho is a seven-day prayer devotion modelled on Joshua 6; in its Catholic form it is continuous Eucharistic adoration for seven days and nights.
  • Archäologen sind sich immer noch uneins, ob Jericho etwa 1550 v. Chr. zerstört wurde, wie Kathleen Kenyon meinte, oder etwa 1400 v. Chr., wie Bryant Wood 1990 argumentierte.

Jericho is the first city Israel took in the promised land, and in the Bible it stands for a gift: a city handed to God’s people before they had struck a blow. Its walls fell at a shout (Joshua 6), Rahab found mercy there amid judgment, and Jesus stopped there for a blind beggar and a tax collector. The whole story turns on a verb in the past tense. Before Israel had walked once around the walls, the LORD told…

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