Word

בִּקְעָה

biqʻâh · H1237 · Hebrew · 21 occurrences

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Meanings

valley, plain, basin

A broad, relatively level depression in the terrain, often between mountains or hills

Examples
Genesis 11:2 And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Deuteronomy 8:7 “For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 11:11 “But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,

How it’s used In 4 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

7 occurrences in 5 groups

לְבָנוֹןLebanon 2
מְגִדּוֹןMegiddo 2
אוֹנוֹOno 1
יְרִיחוֹJericho 1
מִצְפֶּהlookout 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָצָאto find 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 5 groups

בin/on/with 11
אֵלto, toward 4
מִןfrom 1
עַדto, as far as, until 1
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

תָּוֶךְmiddle 2
כִּכָּרtalent, plain, loaf 1
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Landforms001002003: בִּקְעָה denotes a valley or open plain, as in Genesis 11:2's "they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there" (בִקְעָה), naming the broad, low-lying terrain.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בָּקַע bâqaʻ · H1234 · to be split, to be cleft, to be breached · 51×בִּקְעָהbiqʻâh · H1237בְּקִיעַ bᵉqîyaʻ · H1233 · breach, piece, bit · 2×בֶּקַע beqaʻ · H1235 · a half shekel, beka · 2×בִּקְעָא biqʻâʼ · H1236 · plain · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1237. biqah בִּקְעָה noun feminine valley (cleft), plain — absolute ׳ב Gen 11:2 Gen…

H1237. biqah
בִּקְעָה noun feminine valley (cleft), plain — absolute ׳ב Gen 11:2 Gen 11:8t.; construct בִּקְעַת Deu 34:3 Deu 34:7t.; plural בְּקָעוֺת Isa 41:18; Psa 104:8; בְּקָעֹת Deu 11:11; —
1 valley (opposed to הַר mountain) Deu 8:7; Deu 11:11; compare Isa 41:18; also Isa 63:14 תֵרֵד בַּבִּקְעָח כַּבְּהֵמָה; in creation-poem Psa 104:8 בְקָעוֺת יֵרְדוּ הָרִים יַעֲלוּ.
2 plain (sometimes valley-plain, broad valley) Gen 11:2; also Eze 3:22-23, Eze 8:4; Eze 37:1-2,(הַבּ ׳עַלמְּֿבֵי) as level, opposed to סִים הָֽרְכָּ Isa 40:4 (|| מִישׁוֺר); elsewhere construct mostly with proper name Deu 34:3 ׳ב יְרֵחוֺ (appositive הַכִּכָּר), ׳ב מִצְפֶה Jos 11:8, ׳ב הַלְּבָנוֺן Jos 11:17; Jos 12:7, ׳ב מִגִדּוֺ2Ch 35:22 compare Zec 12:11, ׳ב אוֺנוֺ Neh 6:2; אָֿוֶן׳ב Amo 1:5 plain of idolatry = Baalbek (Damascus, according to Wetzst in DeJes 3, 702; ᵐ5 πέδιον Ὤη).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations1 occurrence

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