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Lexicon :: Strong's H6010 - ʿēmeq

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עֵמֶק
Transliteration
ʿēmeq
Pronunciation
ay'-mek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1644a

Strong’s Definitions

עֵמֶק ʻêmeq, ay'-mek; from H6009; a vale (i.e. broad depression):—dale, vale, valley (often used as a part of proper names). See also H1025.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x

The KJV translates Strong's H6010 in the following manner: valley (63x), vale (4x), dale (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x
The KJV translates Strong's H6010 in the following manner: valley (63x), vale (4x), dale (2x).

  1. valley, vale, lowland, open country

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵמֶק ʻêmeq, ay'-mek; from H6009; a vale (i.e. broad depression):—dale, vale, valley (often used as a part of proper names). See also H1025.
STRONGS H6010: Abbreviations
עֵ֫מֶק 70 noun masculineMicah 1:4 vale (properly deepening, depth, see GASmGeogr. 384 f. 654 f.; compare בִּקְעָה, גַּיְא, נַחַל); — י׳ absolute Joshua 8:13 +, construct Genesis 14:17 +; suffix עִמְקֵךְ Jeremiah 49:4, עִמְקָם Jeremiah 47:5 (but see below); plural עֲמָקִים Micah 1:4, suffix עֲמָקַיִךְ Isaiah 22:7; — vale, valley, lowland, opposed to הֶהָרִים Micah 1:4, amid mountains, e.g. about Jerusalem Isaiah 22:7; Jeremiah 31:40, so perhaps לשׁוֵה ע׳ Genesis 14:17 = הַמֶּלֶךְ ע׳ Genesis 14:17; 2 Samuel 18:18, compare תֶבְרוֺן ע׳ Genesis 37:14 (J), בְּגִבְעוֺן ע׳ Isaiah 28:21; Joshua 8:13 (JE), הָאֵלָה ע׳ 1 Samuel 17:2, 19; 1 Samuel 21:10 (perhaps Wady es-Sant, in Shephelah, west of Bethlehem, GASmGeogr. 226); אֲשֶׁר לְבֵית רְחוֺב ע׳ Judges 18:28 in extreme north; in Moab Jeremiah 48:8 (|| [opposed to?] מִישׁוֺר); or wider, e.g. Judges 5:15 (scene of Sisera's defeat; read perhaps ע׳ also for עֲמָלֵק Judges 5:14 GFM), יִזְרְעֶ֑אל ע׳ Judges 6:33; Hosea 1:5; Joshua 17:16 (JE), compare Judges 7:1, 8, 12; 1 Samuel 31:7 = 1 Chronicles 10:7, these all perhaps narrow ends of plain (compare GASml.c.), but see 1 Kings 20:28 (opposed to הֶהָרִים; || מִישׁוֺר 1 Kings 20:23; = open country, compare Aphek 1 Kings 20:26); of Jordan-valley Joshua 13:19, 27 (P); of maritime plain (opposed to הָהָר) Judges 1:19, 34; fit for chariots, so also אֶרֶץ הָע׳ Joshua 17:16 (P), compare Job 39:21; ישֶׁבֶת הָע׳ Jeremiah 21:13, compare Numbers 14:25 (see Gie Di); cultivated 1 Samuel 6:13; Jeremiah 49:4 (twice in verse); Job 39:10, fertile 1 Chronicles 27:29; Psalm 65:14 [Psalm 65:13]; Songs 2:1; see also אַיָּלוֺן, בָּכָא, כְּרָכָה, II. חָרוּץ, יְהוֺשָׁפָט, סֻכּוֺת, עָכוֺר, קְצִיץ, רְפָאִים, שִׂדִּים; בֵּית הָע׳. — For עִמְקָם Jeremiah 47:5 read עֲנָקִם Anakim Greek Version of the LXX Thes Hi Gf Gie Co Rothst; so also (more dubious) 1 Chronicles 12:16 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:15) Gf Gie, where otherwise הָע׳ = people of valleys.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:17; 14:17; 14:17; 37:14

Numbers

14:25

Joshua

8:13; 8:13; 13:19; 13:27; 17:16; 17:16

Judges

1:19; 1:34; 5:14; 5:15; 6:33; 7:1; 7:8; 7:12; 18:28

1 Samuel

6:13; 17:2; 17:19; 21:10; 31:7

2 Samuel

18:18

1 Kings

20:23; 20:26; 20:28

1 Chronicles

10:7; 12:15; 12:16; 27:29

Job

39:10; 39:21

Psalms

65:13

Song of Songs

2:1

Isaiah

22:7; 22:7; 28:21

Jeremiah

21:13; 31:40; 47:5; 47:5; 48:8; 49:4; 49:4

Hosea

1:5

Micah

1:4; 1:4; 1:4

H6010

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Strong's Number H6010 matches the Hebrew עֵמֶק (ʿēmeq),
which occurs 12 times in 11 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up unto the valley of Achor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - And they raised over him a great heap of stones, unto this day; and Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait that were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel,
Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon;
And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:19 - and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border thereof, unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,
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