Valleys of the Bible

Hebrew words

  1. Hebrew: bik'ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deuteronomy 8:7; 11:11; Psalm 104:8; Isaiah 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the Jordan (Joshua 11:17; 12:7), and the valley of Megiddo (2 Chronicles 35:22).

  2. 'Emek, “deep;” “a long, low plain” (Job 39:10, 21; Psalm 65:13; Song of Songs 2:1), such as the plain of Esdraelon; the “valley of giants” (Joshua 15:8), usually translated “valley of Rephaim” (2 Samuel 5:18); of Elah (1 Samuel 17:2), of Berachah (2 Chronicles 20:26); the king's “dale” (Genesis 14:17); of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:2, 12), of Achor (Joshua 7:24; Isaiah 65:10), Succoth (Psalm 60:6), Ajalon (Joshua 10:12), Jezreel (Hos. 1:5).

  3. Ge, “a bursting,” a “flowing together,” a narrow glen or ravine, such as the valley of the children of Hinnom (2 Kings 23:10); of Eshcol (Deuteronomy 1:24); of Sorek (Judges 16:4), etc.

    The “valley of vision” (Isaiah 22:1) is usually regarded as denoting Jerusalem, which “may be so called,” says Barnes (Com. on Isa.), “either (1) because there were several valleys within the city and adjacent to it, as the vale between Mount Zion and Moriah, the vale between Mount Moriah and Mount Ophel, between these and Mount Bezetha, and the valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley of the brook Kidron, etc., without the walls of the city; or (2) more probably it was called the valley in reference to its being compassed with hills rising to a considerable elevation above the city” (Psalm 125:2; compare also Jeremiah 21:13, where Jerusalem is called a “valley”).

  4. Hebrew: nahal, a wady or water-course (Genesis 26:19; Song of Songs 6:11).

Biblical Vallies

  1. Valley of Achor
  2. Valley of Aven (Amos 1:5)
  3. Valley of Ajalon (Ayalon Valley)
  4. Arabah
  5. Valley of Baca
  6. Valley of Berachah
  7. Charashim
  8. Valley of Decision
  9. Valley of Elah
  10. Eshcol
  11. Gehenna
  12. valley of Gerar
  13. Hamon-gog
  14. Valley of Hinnom (Hinnon)
  15. Valley of Ben-hinnom (Joshua 15:8; 18:16)
  16. Valley of the Jabbok
  17. Valley of Jehoshaphat
  18. Valley of Jezreel
  19. Jordan valley
  20. Kedron
  21. Kidron Valley
  22. Kishon Valley
  23. valley of Megiddo
  24. Mount of the Valley
  25. Valley of Rephaim
  26. Rithmah
  27. Valley of Salt
  28. Valley of Shaveh
  29. Shittim
  30. Valley of Siddim
  31. Sorek
  32. Valley of Trouble (Achor)
  33. valley of vision (Gehazi)
  34. Tyropoeon Valley
  35. Zered
  36. Zeboim
  37. Zephathah

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Article Version: June 5, 2019