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. 2 Chronicles 14:10 בְּגֵ֥יא be.Gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

  2. 2 Chronicles 25:11 גֵּ֣יא gei' · A person, place or thing

    And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.

  3. 2 Chronicles 26:9 הַגַּ֖יְא ha.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

  4. 2 Chronicles 28:3 בְּגֵ֣יא be.Gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

  5. 2 Chronicles 33:6 בְּגֵ֣י be.Gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

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