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. 1 Chronicles 18:12 בְּגֵ֣יא be.Gei' · A person, place or thing

    Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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

    Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

  12. Psalms 23:4 בְּגֵ֪יא be.Gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

  13. Psalms 60:title בְּגֵיא־ be.gei'- · A person, place or thing

    For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

  14. Isaiah 22:1 גֵּ֣יא gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

  15. Isaiah 22:5 בְּגֵ֣יא be.Gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.

  16. Isaiah 28:1 גֵּֽיא־ gei'- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!

  17. Isaiah 28:4 גֵּ֣יא gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

  18. Isaiah 40:4 גֶּיא֙ gei' · A person, place or thing

    Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

  19. Jeremiah 2:23 בַּגַּ֔יְא ba.Gay' · A person, place or thing

    How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

  20. Jeremiah 7:31 בְּגֵ֣יא be.Gei' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.

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