bika · plain, valley

What it means

bika (בִּקְעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plain, valley”.

Broad plain between mountains; wide valley.

How to say it

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

1. A broad, level stretch between hills.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• plain ×9
• valley ×8
• valleys ×2
• plains ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 11:2

  As they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

• Deuteronomy 8:7

  For YHWH your Elohim is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of springs and deeps flowing out in the plain and on the mountain;

• Deuteronomy 11:11

  But the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it is a land of mountains and plains; it drinks water from the rain of the heavens,

• Deuteronomy 34:3

  and the Negev, and the plain, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

• Joshua 11:8

  And YHWH gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and as far as Misrephoth-maim, and as far as the valley of Mizpah to the east; and they struck them until they had left them no survivor.

• Joshua 11:17

  from Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And all their kings he took and struck them and put them to death.

• Joshua 12:7

  And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

• 2 Chronicles 35:22

  But Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but to fight against him he disguised himself, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Elohim; and he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

• Nehemiah 6:2

  Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to do me harm.

• Psalms 104:8

  The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place that you founded for them.

• Isaiah 40:4

  Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the crooked will become a plain, and the rough places a broad valley.

• Isaiah 41:18

  I will open on the bare heights rivers, and in the midst of the broad valleys springs; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into outlets of water.

• Isaiah 63:14

  Like livestock that goes down into the valley, the spirit of YHWH gave them rest; so you led your people, to make for yourself a name of beauty.

• Ezekiel 3:22

  And the hand of YHWH came upon me there, and he said to me, “Arise, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”

• Ezekiel 3:23

  And I arose and went out to the plain, and look, there the glory of YHWH was standing, like the glory that I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

• Ezekiel 8:4

  And look, there was the glory of the Elohim of Israel, like the appearance that I saw in the plain.

• Ezekiel 37:1

  The hand of YHWH was upon me, and he brought me out in the spirit of YHWH and set me down in the midst of the plain; and it was full of bones.

• Ezekiel 37:2

  And he made me pass by them all around; and look, they were very many on the face of the plain; and look, they were very dry.

• Amos 1:5

  And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir, says YHWH.

• Zechariah 12:11

  On that day the lament in Jerusalem will be great, like the lament of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.