Dict: easton - Valley

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(1.) Heb. bik'ah, a "cleft" of the mountains kjv@Deuteronomy:8:7 kjv@Deuteronomy:11:11; kjv@Psalms:104:8; kjv@Isaiah:41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the Jordan kjv@Joshua:11:17 kjv@Joshua:12:7), and the valley of Megiddo ( kjv@2Chronicals:35:22).

(2.) 'Emek, "deep;" "a long, low plain" kjv@Job:39:10 kjv@Job:39:21 kjv@Psalms:65:13; Cant. 2:1), such as the plain of Esdraelon; the "valley of giants" kjv@Joshua:15:8), usually translated "valley of Rephaim" ( kjv@2Samuel:5:18); of Elah ( kjv@1Samuel:17:2), of Berachah ( kjv@2Chronicals:20:26); the king's "dale" kjv@Genesis:14:17); of Jehoshaphat kjv@Joel:3:2 kjv@Joel:3:12), of Achor kjv@Joshua:7:24; kjv@Isaiah:65:10), Succoth kjv@Psalms:60:6), Ajalon kjv@Joshua:10:12), Jezreel kjv@Hosea:1:5).

(3.) Ge, "a bursting," a "flowing together," a narrow glen or ravine, such as the valley of the children of Hinnom ( kjv@2Kings:23:10); of Eshcol kjv@Deuteronomy:1:24); of Sorek kjv@Judges:16:4), etc. The "valley of vision" kjv@Isaiah:22:1) is usually regarded as denoting Jerusalem, which "may be so called," says Barnes (Com. on Isa.), "either

(1) because there were several valleys within the city and adjacent to it, as the vale between Mount Zion and Moriah, the vale between Mount Moriah and Mount Ophel, between these and Mount Bezetha, and the valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley of the brook Kidron, etc., without the walls of the city; or

(2) more probably it was called the valley in reference to its being compassed with hills rising to a considerable elevation above the city" kjv@Psalms:125:2; comp. also kjv@Jeremiah:21:13, where Jerusalem is called a "valley").

(4.) Heb. nahal, a wady or water-course kjv@Genesis:26:19; Cant. 6:11).