Hebrew

(Hamon-gog) Valley

גַּיְאStrong’s H1996

gay

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Gay is the Hebrew word usually translated “hamon-” and “gog”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.”

Ezekiel 39:11 KJV

Meaning

Valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge

How it's translated

hamon- 2
gog 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 2

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture

Ezekiel 39:15And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

Hebrew dictionary

גַּיְא gay · (Hamon-gog) Valley

valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge Combined with ha.mon gog (הֲמוֹן גּוֹג " of Hamon-gog" H1996)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “gog” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GOG, noun

Haste; ardent desire to go.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.