בִּקְעָהbiqʻâh
valley (cleft), plain
Pronunciation: bik-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1237
Meanings
1. valley (Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 11:11; Isaiah 41:18)
2. plain (Genesis 11:2; Ezekiel 3:22; Ezekiel 3:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 20 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 11:2 As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
- Deuteronomy 8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills.
- Deuteronomy 11:11 Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—
- Deuteronomy 34:3 the Negev; the Jordan Valley with Jericho—the city of palms—as far as Zoar.
- Joshua 11:8 And the Lord gave them victory over their enemies. The Israelites chased them as far as Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward into the valley of Mizpah, until not one enemy warrior was left alive.
- Joshua 11:17 The Israelite territory now extended all the way from Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir in the south, as far north as Baal-gad at the foot of Mount Hermon in the valley of Lebanon. Joshua killed all the kings of those territories,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).