Cyrus H. Gordon was the first to point out that Jordan in the Hebrew Bible is not a proper name, but, with two exceptions, always appears with a qualifier, and suggested that on an early linguistic level it may relate to the rivers in Crete and in the Greek mainland as the word "river".
Cyrus H. Gordon was the first to note that Jordan in the Hebrew Bible is not a personal name, but rather appears with an adjective, and proposed that it may be connected to early river names in Crete and Greece, referring to a "river".