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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 69 times in 64 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 14:3–Isa 17:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3 - This second group of kings joined forces in Siddim Valley (that is, the valley of the Dead Sea[fn]).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:8 - Then the rebel kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (also called Zoar) prepared for battle in the valley of the Dead Sea.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - As it happened, the valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits. And as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits, while the rest escaped into the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:17 - After Abram returned from his victory over Kedorlaomer and all his allies, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along,” Jacob said. “Then come back and bring me a report.” So Jacob sent him on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem from their home in the valley of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24 - Then Joshua and all the Israelites took Achan, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, tent, and everything he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - They piled a great heap of stones over Achan, which remains to this day. That is why the place has been called the Valley of Trouble[fn] ever since. So the LORD was no longer angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they stationed the main army north of the town and the ambush west of the town. Joshua himself spent that night in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the LORD in front of all the people of Israel. He said,
“Let the sun stand still over Gibeon,
and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:19 - Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill above the valley,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - In the valley were Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. The western boundary ran along the Jordan River, extended as far north as the tip of the Sea of Galilee,[fn] and then turned eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - From that point it went through the valley of Achor to Debir, turning north toward Gilgal, which is across from the slopes of Adummim on the south side of the valley. From there the boundary extended to the springs at En-shemesh and on to En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - The boundary then passed through the valley of Ben-Hinnom, along the southern slopes of the Jebusites, where the city of Jerusalem is located. Then it went west to the top of the mountain above the valley of Hinnom, and on up to the northern end of the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The descendants of Joseph responded, “It’s true that the hill country is not large enough for us. But all the Canaanites in the lowlands have iron chariots, both those in Beth-shan and its surrounding settlements and those in the valley of Jezreel. They are too strong for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - and down to the base of the mountain beside the valley of Ben-Hinnom, at the northern end of the valley of Rephaim. From there it went down the valley of Hinnom, crossing south of the slope where the Jebusites lived, and continued down to En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - These were the towns given to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin. Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:19 - The LORD was with the people of Judah, and they took possession of the hill country. But they failed to drive out the people living in the plains, who had iron chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - As for the tribe of Dan, the Amorites forced them back into the hill country and would not let them come down into the plains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:15 - The princes of Issachar were with Deborah and Barak.
They followed Barak, rushing into the valley.
But in the tribe of Reuben
there was great indecision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 - Soon afterward the armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east formed an alliance against Israel and crossed the Jordan, camping in the valley of Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - So Jerub-baal (that is, Gideon) and his army got up early and went as far as the spring of Harod. The armies of Midian were camped north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So Gideon collected the provisions and rams’ horns of the other warriors and sent them home. But he kept the 300 men with him.
The Midianite camp was in the valley just below Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - The armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels were like grains of sand on the seashore—too many to count!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:28 - There was no one to rescue the people, for they lived a great distance from Sidon and had no allies nearby. This happened in the valley near Beth-rehob.
Then the people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town and lived there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:13 - The people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they saw the Ark, they were overjoyed!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:2 - Saul countered by gathering his Israelite troops near the valley of Elah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:19 - David’s brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - “I only have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah,” the priest replied. “It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here.”
“There is nothing like it!” David replied. “Give it to me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - When the Israelites on the other side of the Jezreel Valley and beyond the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:18 - The Philistines arrived and spread out across the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:22 - But after a while the Philistines returned and again spread out across the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:18 - During his lifetime, Absalom had built a monument to himself in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and it is known as Absalom’s Monument to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:13 - Once during the harvest, when David was at the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:28 - Then the man of God went to the king of Israel and said, “This is what the LORD says: The Arameans have said, ‘The LORD is a god of the hills and not of the plains.’ So I will defeat this vast army for you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - When all the Israelites in the Jezreel Valley saw that their army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - Once when David was at the rock near the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These were the men who crossed the Jordan River during its seasonal flooding at the beginning of the year and drove out all the people living in the lowlands on both the east and west banks.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:9 - The Philistines arrived and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:13 - But after a while the Philistines returned and raided the valley again.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:29 - Shitrai from Sharon was in charge of the cattle on the Sharon Plain. Shaphat son of Adlai was responsible for the cattle in the valleys.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:26 - On the fourth day they gathered in the Valley of Blessing,[fn] which got its name that day because the people praised and thanked the LORD there. It is still called the Valley of Blessing today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:10 - Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow?
Will it plow a field for you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:21 - It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength
when it charges out to battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:6 - God has promised this by his holiness[fn]:
“I will divide up Shechem with joy.
I will measure out the valley of Succoth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:13 - The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep,
and the valleys are carpeted with grain.
They all shout and sing for joy!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 84:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:6 - When they walk through the Valley of Weeping,[fn]
it will become a place of refreshing springs.
The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:7 - God has promised this by his holiness[fn]:
“I will divide up Shechem with joy.
I will measure out the valley of Succoth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:1 - Young Woman
I am the spring crocus blooming on the Sharon Plain,[fn]
the lily of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - The whole land will look like a grainfield
after the harvesters have gathered the grain.
It will be desolate,
like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.

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