גַּיְאgayʼ
valley, elsewhere in combination with proper names
Pronunciation: gah'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1516
Meanings
a. Jotapata, Tell Jefât (Joshua 19:14; Joshua 19:27)
c. el-Ghôr (2 Kings 14:7; 1 Chronicles 18:12; 2 Chronicles 25:11)
e. to the north of M. (2 Chronicles 14:9; Ezekiel 39:11)
f. name to be changed to (Ezekiel 39:11; Ezekiel 39:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 60 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 21:20 After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.
- Deuteronomy 3:29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth-peor.
- Deuteronomy 4:46 and as they camped in the valley near Beth-peor east of the Jordan River. (This land was formerly occupied by the Amorites under King Sihon, who ruled from Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites destroyed him and his people when they came up from Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 34:6 The Lord buried him in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.
- Joshua 8:11 All the fighting men who were with Joshua marched in front of the town and camped on the north side of Ai, with a valley between them and the town.
- Joshua 15:8 The boundary then passed through the valley of Ben-Hinnom, along the southern slopes of the Jebusites, where the city of Jerusalem is located. Then it went west to the top of the mountain above the valley of Hinnom, and on up to the northern end of the valley of Rephaim.
See every passage
- Numbers 21:20
- Deuteronomy 3:29, 4:46, 34:6
- Joshua 8:11, 15:8, 18:16, 19:14, 19:27
- 1 Samuel 13:18, 17:3, 17:52
- 2 Samuel 8:13
- 2 Kings 2:16, 14:7, 23:10
- 1 Chronicles 4:14, 4:39, 18:12
- 2 Chronicles 14:10, 25:11, 26:9, 28:3, 33:6
- Nehemiah 2:13, 2:15, 3:13, 11:30, 11:35
- Psalms 23:4, 60:0
- Isaiah 22:1, 22:5, 28:1, 28:4, 40:4
- Jeremiah 2:23, 7:31, 7:32, 19:2, 19:6, 32:35
- Ezekiel 6:3, 7:16, 31:12, 32:5, 35:8, 36:4, 36:6, 39:11, 39:15
- Micah 1:6
- Zechariah 14:4, 14:5
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).