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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1237

בִּקְעָה

biqahbik-aw'

Valley (of Jericho)

20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: biqʻâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1237is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1237

properly, a split, i.e. a wide level valley between mountains

The King James renders it: plain, valley.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

biqah is rendered "Valley (of Jericho)". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:2בִקְעָ֛ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's twenty uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • in valley of4
  • in plain of2
  • in the valley2
  • the plain2
  • the valley2
  • valleys2
  • a plain1
  • and valleys1
  • from Valley of1
  • into a plain1
  • on the plain1
  • valley of1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בִּקְעָאbiqaplainUses1
בִּקֹּרֶתbiqqorethscourgingUses1

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בְּבִקְעַ֣ת3
  • בְּבִקְעַ֥ת2
  • הַבִּקְעָ֔ה2
  • בַּבִּקְעָ֖ה1
  • בַּבִּקְעָ֣ה1
  • בַּבִּקְעָֽה׃1
  • בִקְעָ֛ה1
  • בְקָע֑וֹת1
  • בְּקָע֖וֹת1
  • בִּקְעַ֧ת1
  • בִּקְעַ֥ת1
  • הַבִּקְעָה֒1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HR/Ncfsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular4HTd/Ncfsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl

Genesis

one use
  • And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

    Genesis 11:2

    • בִקְעָ֛הvikahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a plain

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

    Deuteronomy 8:7

    • בַּבִּקְעָ֖הbabikahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the valley
  • But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

    Deuteronomy 11:11

    • וּבְקָעֹ֑תuvekaotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and valleys
  • the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

    Deuteronomy 34:3

    • בִּקְעַ֧תbikatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in valley of

Joshua

three uses
  • and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.

    Joshua 11:8

    • בִּקְעַ֥תbikatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: valley of
  • from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.

    Joshua 11:17

    • בְּבִקְעַ֣תbevikatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in valley of
  • And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

    Joshua 12:7

    • בְּבִקְעַ֣תbevikatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in valley of

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.

    2 Chronicles 35:22

    • בְּבִקְעַ֥תbevikatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in valley of

Nehemiah

one use
  • Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

    Nehemiah 6:2

    • בְּבִקְעַ֣תbevikatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in plain of

Psalms

one use
  • the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

    Psalms 104:8

    • בְקָע֑וֹתvekaotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: valleys

Isaiah

three uses
  • Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

    Isaiah 40:4

    • לְבִקְעָֽה׃levikahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a plain
  • I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

    Isaiah 41:18

    • בְּקָע֖וֹתbekaotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: valleys
  • Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

    Isaiah 63:14

    • בַּבִּקְעָ֣הbabikahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the valley

Ezekiel

five uses
  • And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”

    Ezekiel 3:22

    • הַבִּקְעָ֔הhabikahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plain
  • So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.

    Ezekiel 3:23

    • הַבִּקְעָה֒habikahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plain
  • And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.

    Ezekiel 8:4

    • בַּבִּקְעָֽה׃babikahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the plain
  • The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.

    Ezekiel 37:1

    • הַבִּקְעָ֑הhabikahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley
  • He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.

    Ezekiel 37:2

    • הַבִּקְעָ֔הhabikahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley

Amos

one use
  • I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.

    Amos 1:5

    • מִבִּקְעַת־mibikat-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Valley of

Zechariah

one use
  • On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

    Zechariah 12:11

    • בְּבִקְעַ֥תbevikatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in plain of

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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