בִּקְעָא
biqʻâʼ · H1236 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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valley, plain, basin
A broad, relatively level depression in the terrain, often between mountains or hills
ExamplesDaniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דּוּרָאDura 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מִישׁוֹר mîyshôwr · H4334 · plain, plateau, tableland
- Hebrew noun denoting a level place or plain, semantically overlapping with בִּקְעָא but from a different root (ישׁר 'be level, straight'); both refer to flat geographical terrain
- עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh · H6160 · plain, steppe, desert
- Hebrew noun for arid plain or steppe; distinct root from target but semantically close as both denote flat open terrain, though עֲרָבָה emphasizes aridity
Contrasting words 2 words
- הַר har · H2022 · mountain, hill-country
- Standard lexical opposite in geographical/topographical terminology: mountain versus plain represents elevated terrain versus flat terrain
- גִּבְעָה gibʻâh · H1389 · hill
- Topographical opposite: hill as elevated terrain contrasts lexically with plain as flat, low-lying terrain
In the other Testament 1 word
- πεδινός pedinós · G3977 · level
- Greek adjective meaning 'level, flat' and substantivally 'plain,' the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew plain terminology; genuine translation equivalent for geographical flat terrain
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- Daniel 3:1 recounts that “Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold...he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1236. biqa [בְּקְעָא] noun feminine plain (ᵑ7; Biblical Hebrew בְּקְעָה, √ בקע; compare…
[בְּקְעָא] noun feminine plain (ᵑ7; Biblical Hebrew בְּקְעָה, √ בקע; compare Syriac , √ ); — construct דּוּרָא בְבִקְעַת Dan 3:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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