How to Pronounce Esdraelon
EZ-druh-EE-luhn
Esdraelon is pronounced EZ-druh-EE-luhn: four syllables, stress on the first and third.
What is Esdraelon?
The Greek form of the Hebrew “Jezreel,” the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer; i.e., “the meadow of the son of Amer”) which stretches across Central Palestine from the Jordan to the Mediterraanean, separating the mountain ranges of Carmel and Samaria from those of Galilee, extending about 14 miles from north to south, and 9 miles from east to west. It is drained by “that ancient river” the Kishon, which flows westward to the Mediterranean. From the foot of Mount Tabor it branches out into three valleys, that on the north passing between Tabor and Little Hermon (Judg.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.