[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/vale.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / vale

[← V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/V/)

# vale

«vale» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a valley, a low green piece of land between hills** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (vale, vales)

### meaning for a pupil

A vale is a valley, a low green piece of land between hills. It is a poetic and old-fashioned word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it is a valley name, like the Vale of Siddim near the Dead Sea, where kings fought in Abraham's time. Interpretation: Tradition sees the Salt Sea as a place covered over where Sodom and Gomorrah once stood. In the primary lessons: in old poems and fairy tales, a vale is a pleasant green place where people live, walk or sing

### examples

- All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea. (Torah GEN.14.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x1)
- Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the Vale; tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.' (Torah NUM.14.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x2)
- Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain. (Torah GEN.14.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x3)
- now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, are in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.' (Prophets 1SA.17.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x4)
- And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. (Prophets 1SA.17.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x5)
- Birds sang all morning in the vale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x6)
- The village lay in a green vale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x7)
- The shepherd led his sheep down into the vale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/#x8)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.355/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vale» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vale/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.