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title: בִּקְעָה — valley · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּקְעָה (1237), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 19 times: valley. BDB 1906: n.f. valley plain. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּקְעָה

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«בִּקְעָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **valley** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 19 times · **Key:** 1237 · **BDB:** בִּקְעָה

### Glosses

the.valley (6); plain (4); the.plain (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

valley [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1237/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. valley plain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1237/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. valley (cleft), plain—abs. ב׳ Gn 11:2 + 8 times; cstr. בִּקְעַת Dt 34:3 + 7 times; pl. בְּקָעוֹת Is 41:18 ψ 104:8; בְּקָעֹת Dt 11:11;— valley (opp. הַר mountain) Dt 8:7 11:11 cf. Is 41:18; also 63:14 כַּבְּהֵמָה בַּבִּקְעָה תֵרֵד in creation-poem ψ 104:8 יַעֲלוּ הָרִים יֵרֽדוּ בְקָעוֹת. plain (sometimes valley-plain, broad valley) Gn 11:2; also Ez 3:22, 23; 8:4; 37:1, 2 (עַל־פְּנֵי הַבּ׳) as level, opp. הָֽרְכָסִים Is 40:4 (‖ מִישׁוֹר); elsewhere cstr., mostly with n.pr. Dt 34:3 ב׳ יְרֵחוֹ (appos. הַכִּכָּר), ב׳ מִצְפֶּה Jos 11:8, ב׳ הַלְּבָנוֹן 11:17; 12:7, ב׳ מִגִדּוֹ 2 Ch 35:22 cf. Zc 12:11, ב׳ אוֹנוֹ Ne 6:2; ב׳־אָוֶן Am 1:5 plain of idolatry = Baalbek (Damascus, according to Wetzst in DeJes 3, 702; 𝔊 πέδιον Ὤν).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּקְעָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1237/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 104:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.8/)

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יַעֲל֣וּ הָ֭רִים יֵרְד֣וּ בְקָע֑וֹת אֶל־מְ֝ק֗וֹם זֶ֤ה ׀ יָסַ֬דְתָּ לָהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* they.went.up mountains they.went.down valleys to the.place (of).which you.had.established for them

*JPS 1917:* The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;

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[Ezekiel 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.4/)

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וְהִ֨נֵּה־שָׁ֔ם כְּב֖וֹד אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּמַּרְאֶ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִ֖יתִי בַּבִּקְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and there! \[was\].there the.glory of.the.God of.Israel like the appearance which I.had.seen on the plain

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

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