Valley
עֵ֫מֶקStrong’s H6010emeq (e-meq)
Appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Emeq is the Hebrew word usually translated “valley of”, “valley” and “from valley of”. It appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament.
“All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.”
Meaning
- Combined with a.khor (עָכוֹר " of Achor" H5911)
- § valley, vale, lowland, open country
- Valley, vale, lowland, open country
How it's translated
- in valley of 18
- valley of 10
- in the valley 10
- the valley 7
- and valley of 4
- from valley of 2
- valleys 2
- the valleys 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 11
- Judges 8
- 1 Chronicles 6
- Genesis 5
- 1 Samuel 5
- Jeremiah 5
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 14:8And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
- Genesis 14:10And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
- Genesis 14:17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
- Genesis 37:14And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Numbers 14:25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
- Joshua 7:24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
All 64 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עֵ֫מֶק emeq · Valley (of Achor)
Combined with a.khor (עָכוֹר " of Achor" H5911) § valley, vale, lowland, open country
עֵ֫מֶק emeq · Emek
§ valley, vale, lowland, open country
עֵ֫מֶק emeq · valley
valley, vale, lowland, open country
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “valley” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VAL'LEY, noun
plural valleys. [Latin vallis. See Vale.]
- A hollow or low tract of land between hills or mountains.
- A low extended plain, usually alluvial, penetrated or washed by a river.
- In building, a gutter over the sleepers in the roof of a building.
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.