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# בִּקְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1237

**valley** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

valley [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1237/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּקְעָה: n.f. valley plain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1237/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. valley (cleft), plain—abs. ב׳ Gn 11:2 + 8 times; cstr. בִּקְעַת Dt 34:3 + 7 times; pl. בְּקָעוֹת Is 41:18 ψ 104:8; בְּקָעֹת Dt 11:11;— valley (opp. הַר mountain) Dt 8:7 11:11 cf. Is 41:18; also 63:14 כַּבְּהֵמָה בַּבִּקְעָה תֵרֵד in creation-poem ψ 104:8 יַעֲלוּ הָרִים יֵרֽדוּ בְקָעוֹת. plain (sometimes valley-plain, broad valley) Gn 11:2; also Ez 3:22, 23; 8:4; 37:1, 2 (עַל־פְּנֵי הַבּ׳) as level, opp. הָֽרְכָסִים Is 40:4 (‖ מִישׁוֹר); elsewhere cstr., mostly with n.pr. Dt 34:3 ב׳ יְרֵחוֹ (appos. הַכִּכָּר), ב׳ מִצְפֶּה Jos 11:8, ב׳ הַלְּבָנוֹן 11:17; 12:7, ב׳ מִגִדּוֹ 2 Ch 35:22 cf. Zc 12:11, ב׳ אוֹנוֹ Ne 6:2; ב׳־אָוֶן Am 1:5 plain of idolatry = Baalbek (Damascus, according to Wetzst in DeJes 3, 702; 𝔊 πέδιον Ὤν).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the valley (6); plain (4); the plain (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.8/#tree)

יַעֲל֣וּ הָ֭רִים יֵרְד֣וּ בְקָע֑וֹת אֶל־מְ֝ק֗וֹם זֶ֤ה ׀ יָסַ֬דְתָּ לָהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* they.went.up mountains they.went.down valleys to the.place (of).which you.had.established for them

*JPS 1917:* The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;

[Ezekiel 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.4/#tree)

וְהִ֨נֵּה־שָׁ֔ם כְּב֖וֹד אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּמַּרְאֶ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִ֖יתִי בַּבִּקְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and there! \[was\].there the.glory of.the.God of.Israel like the appearance which I.had.seen on the plain

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1237.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1237/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).