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# עֵמֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6010

**vale** — used 65 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

vale [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6010/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫מֶק: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6010/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Mi 1:4 vale (proposes deepening, depth, v. GASmGeogr. 384f. 654f.; cf. בִּקְעָה, גַּיְא, נַחַל);—ע׳ abs. Jos 8:13 +, cstr. Gn 14:17 +; sf. עִמְקֵךְ Je 49:4, עִמְקָם 47:5 (but v. infr.); pl. עֲמָקִים Mi 1:4, sf. עֲמָקַיִךְ Is 22:7;—vale, valley, lowland, opp. הֶהָרִים Mi 1:4, amid mts., e.g. about Jerus. Is 22:7; Je 31:40, so perhaps ע׳ שָׁוֵה Gn 14:17 = ע׳ הַמֶּלֶךְ v 17; 2 S 18:18, cf. ע׳ חֶבְרוֹן Gn 37:14 (J), ע׳ בְּגִבְעוֹן Is 28:21; Jos 8:13 (JE), ע׳ הָאֵלָה 1 S 17:2, 19; 21:10 (perhaps Wady es-Sant, in Shephelah, W. of Bethlehem, GASmGeogr. 226); ע׳ אֲשֶׁר לְבֵית רְחוֹב Ju 18:28 in extreme north; in Moab Je 48:8 (‖ \[opp.?\] מִישׁוֹר); or wider, e.g. Ju 5:15 (scene of Sisera’s defeat; read perhaps ע׳ also for עֲמָלֵק v 14 GFM), ע׳ יִזְרְעֶ֑אל Ju 6:33; Ho 1:5; Jos 17:16 (JE), cf. Ju 7:1, 8, 12; 1 S 31:7 = 1 Ch 10:7, these all perhaps narrow ends of plain (cf. GASml.c.), but v. 1 K 20:28 (opp. הֶהָרִים; ‖ מִישׁוֹר v 23; = open country, cf. Aphek v 26); of Jordan-valley Jos 13:19, 27 (P); of Philistine plain (opp. הָהָר) Ju 1:19, 34; fit for chariots, so also אֶרֶץ הָע׳ Jos 17:16 (P), cf. Jb 39:21; ישֶׁבֶת הָע׳ Je 21:13, cf. Nu 14:25 (v. Gie Di); cultivated 1 S 6:13; Je 49:4(×2) Jb 39:10, fertile 1 Ch 27:29 ψ 65:14; Ct 2:1; v. also אַיָּלוֹן, בָּכָא, בְּרָכָה, ii. חָרוּץ, יְהוֹשָׁפָט, סֻכּוֹת, עָכוֹר, קְצִיץ, רְפָאִים, שִׂדִּים; בֵּית הָע׳ v. p. 112a.—For עִמְקָם Je 47:5 read עֲנָקִם Anakim 𝔊 Thes Hi Gf Gie Co Rothst; so also (more dub.) 1 Ch 12:16 (van d. H. v 15) Gf Gie, where otherwise הָע׳ = people of valleys.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 35 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the valley (35); valley (14); valleys (6).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.1/#tree)

אֲנִי֙ חֲבַצֶּ֣לֶת הַשָּׁר֔וֹן שֽׁוֹשַׁנַּ֖ת הָעֲמָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I \[am\].the.crocus of.(the) Sharon (the).lily of the.valleys

*JPS 1917:* I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

[2 Samuel 5:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.18/#tree)

וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בָּ֑אוּ וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ בְּעֵ֥מֶק רְפָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] Philistines they.had.come and they.had.spread.out in the.valley of.Rephaim

*JPS 1917:* Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6010.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6010/): 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).