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 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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