עֵמֶק
emek · valley
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6010 · appears 69 times in the Bible
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emek (עֵמֶק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “valley”.
Broad low plain.
How to say it
e·mek
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A low, broad stretch of land between mountains, where people farm, camp and fight.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Valley: a low, broad plain between mountains, good for farming and for battle. It comes from עָמַק (be deep). Many valleys bear a proper name: Aijalon, Elah, Achor, Jehoshaphat.
- Named valleys in the narratives Genesis 14:17Joshua 10:121 Samuel 17:19
- The inhabitants of the valley, with chariots of iron Judges 1:19
- “Not an Elohim of valleys” 1 Kings 20:28
- The valley of Achor, “a door of hope” Joshua 7:24Hosea 2:15
- The valley of the judgment of the nations Joel 3:2Joel 3:14
Historical and cultural background
The Valley of Achor takes its name from the punishment of Achan (Joshua 7:24-26); Hosea 2:15 turns it into “a door of hope”.
How we translate it
“Valley” 59 times and “valleys” 9. גַּיְא (H1516), which names rather a narrow ravine, is also translated “valley”; pointing at the word shows which one the Hebrew says. Once it is part of the place name Emek-keziz (Joshua 18:21).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- valley ×59
- valleys ×9
- Emek-keziz ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×6
- Numbers×1
- Joshua×12
- Judges×8
- 1 Samuel×5
- 2 Samuel×4
- 1 Kings×1
- 1 Chronicles×6
- 2 Chronicles×2
- Job×2
- Psalms×4
- Song of Songs×1
- Isaiah×4
- Jeremiah×6
- Hosea×2
- Joel×4
- Micah×1
- Genesis 14:3
All these joined forces at the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 14:8
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and drew up battle lines against them in the Valley of Siddim,
- Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was pit after pit of bitumen; and as they fled, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there, and those who were left fled to the mountains.
- Genesis 14:17
After he returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King).
- Genesis 37:14
He said to him, “Go, please, see the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Numbers 14:25
Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley. Tomorrow turn and set out for yourselves into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”
- Joshua 7:24
Then Joshua took Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, the cloak, the tongue of gold, his sons and his daughters, his ox, his donkey, his flock, his tent, and all that he had, and all Israel was with him; and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.
- Joshua 7:26
And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day. Then YHWH turned from the burning of his anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.
- Joshua 8:13
So the people positioned all the camp that was to the north of the city and its rear to the west of the city, and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
- Joshua 10:12
Then Joshua spoke to YHWH on the day when YHWH gave up the Amorite before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”
- Joshua 13:19
and Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,
- Joshua 13:27
and in the valley: Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, as far as the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan to the east.
- Joshua 15:7
and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;
- Joshua 15:8
and the border went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim;
- Joshua 17:16
And the sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanite who live in the land of the valley, both those in Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”
- Joshua 18:16
and the border went down to the end of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim to the north; and it went down by the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel;
- Joshua 18:21
And the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
- Judges 1:19
YHWH was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country; but he could not dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
- Judges 1:34
The Amorite pressed the sons of Dan into the hill country, for he did not let them come down to the valley.
- Judges 5:15
The chiefs of Issachar were with Deborah; and as Issachar, so Barak: into the valley he was sent on foot. In the divisions of Reuben great were the resolves of heart.
- Judges 6:33
All Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered together, crossed over, and camped in the valley of Jezreel.
- Judges 7:1
Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, rose early, with all the people who were with him, and they camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of him, from the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
- Judges 7:8
They took the provisions of the people in their hand, and their horns; and all the men of Israel he sent away, each to his tents, but he retained the three hundred men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
- Judges 7:12
Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley like locusts in multitude; and their camels were without number, like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude.
- Judges 18:28
And there was no deliverer, for it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. And they built the city and lived in it.
- 1 Samuel 6:13
Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping the harvest of wheat in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it.
- 1 Samuel 17:2
Saul and the men of Israel gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up for war to meet the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 17:19
Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”
- 1 Samuel 21:9
The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck in the Valley of Elah, look, it is wrapped in a cloak behind the ephod. If you will take it for yourself, take it, for there is no other besides it here.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
- 1 Samuel 31:7
When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and who were on the other side of the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 2 Samuel 5:18
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 2 Samuel 5:22
The Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the standing stone that is in the Valley of the King, for he said, “I have no son to cause people to remember my name.” He called the standing stone by his own name, and it is called “Absalom’s Monument” to this day.
- 2 Samuel 23:13
Three of the thirty chief men went down and came, at harvest time, to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Kings 20:28
The man of Elohim came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Because Aram has said, “YHWH is an Elohim of mountains, and he is not an Elohim of valleys,” I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you will know that I am YHWH.’”
- 1 Chronicles 10:7
And all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, and they abandoned their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock, to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the camp of the Philistines was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 12:15
These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks; and they put to flight all those of the valleys, to the east and to the west.
- 1 Chronicles 14:9
The Philistines had come and made a raid in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 14:13
Once more the Philistines made a raid in the valley.
And 29 more times.