גַּיְא

gay · valley

Hebrew · Strong's H1516 · Noun · Sounds like: gah'-ee · 60 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • valley H1516R 31
  • Valley H1516Q · a Name of 8
  • (Salt) Valley H1516J · a Part of 5
  • Valley (Gate) H1516M 4
  • Valley H1516G · a Name of 2
  • (Iphtahel) Valley H1516H · a Part of 2
  • (Hamon-gog) Valley H1516N · a Part of 2
  • (Zeboim) Valley H1516I · a Part of 1
  • Ge H1516K 1
  • (Zephathah) Valley H1516L · a Part of 1
  • Valley H1516O 1
  • Gath H1516P · a Spelling of 1
  • Valley H1516S · a Name of 1

Strong's dictionary

or (shortened) גַּי; probably (by transmutation) from the same root as גֵּוָה (abbreviated); a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent); valley.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
גַּיְא n.m. valley

Every occurrence

  1. Numbers 21:20 הַגַּיְא֙ ha.gaY' · A person, place or thing

    and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.

  2. Deuteronomy 3:29 בַּגָּ֔יְא ba.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.

  3. Deuteronomy 4:46 בַּגַּ֗יְא ba.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, when they came forth out of Egypt.

  4. Deuteronomy 34:6 בַגַּיְ֙ va.gaY · A person, place or thing

    And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

  5. Joshua 8:11 וְהַגַּ֖י ve.ha.Gai · A person, place or thing

    And all the people, even the men of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.

  6. Joshua 15:8 גֵּ֣י gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the vale of Rephaim northward;

  7. Joshua 15:8 גֵֽי־ gei- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the vale of Rephaim northward;

  8. Joshua 18:16 גֵּ֣י gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel;

  9. Joshua 18:16 גֵּ֨י gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel;

  10. Joshua 19:14 גֵּ֖י gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out thereof were at the valley of Iphtah-el;

  11. Joshua 19:27 וּבְגֵ֨י u.ve.Gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,

  12. 1 Samuel 13:18 גֵּ֥י gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

  13. 1 Samuel 17:3 וְהַגַּ֖יְא ve.ha.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

  14. 1 Samuel 17:52 גַ֔יְא Gay' · A person, place or thing

    And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

  15. 2 Samuel 8:13 בְּגֵיא־ be.gei'- · A person, place or thing

    And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

  16. 2 Kings 2:16 הַגֵּאָי֑וֹת ha.ge.ya.'ot · A person, place or thing

    And they said unto him, Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest the Spirit of Jehovah hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

  17. 2 Kings 14:7 בְּגֵיא־ be.gei'- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.

  18. 2 Kings 23:10 בְּגֵ֣י be.Gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

  19. 1 Chronicles 4:14 גֵּ֣יא gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen.

  20. 1 Chronicles 4:39 הַגָּ֑יְא ha.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

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