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. Nehemiah 2:13 הַגַּ֜יא ha.Gai' · A person, place or thing

    And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

  2. Nehemiah 2:15 הַגַּ֖יְא ha.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

  3. Nehemiah 3:13 הַגַּ֜יְא ha.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the wall unto the dung gate.

  4. Nehemiah 11:30 גֵּֽיא־ gei'- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and the fields thereof, Azekah and the towns thereof. So they encamped from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

  5. Nehemiah 11:35 גֵּ֥י gei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

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