Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
valley
Usage: φάραγξ, -αγγος, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for נַחַל, also for גַּיְא, etc. ;] a chasm, ravine: Luk.3:5 (LXX) (see DB, iv, 845 f.).† (AS)
Pharanx means “valley” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5327 — natsah (“be laid waste”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5327 φάραγξ (pharagx) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pharagx (far'-agx) n. 1. a gap or chasm, i.e. ravine (winter-torrent) [(properly) strengthened from the base of G4008 or rather of G4486] It has 81 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include valley. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
pharagx (far'-agx) n. 1. a gap or chasm, i.e. ravine (winter-torrent) [(properly) strengthened from the base of G4008 or rather of G4486] KJV: valley Root(s): G4486, G4008
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valley
Usage: φάραγξ, -αγγος, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for נַחַל, also for גַּיְא, etc. ;] a chasm, ravine: Luk.3:5 (LXX) (see DB, iv, 845 f.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pharagx, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G5327 (φάραγξ) appears 91 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
67 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
All these met with one consent at the salt valley; this is now the Sea of Salt.
And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And the servants of Isaac dug in the Valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water.
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
so that their slain shall fill their valleys and brooks, and the river shall be filled with their dead, till it overflow:
Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbor, Now will these men lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight.
For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:
6 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
fire which burnt day and night. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which
and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow
ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains. And all the ravines were deep and narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon
First 81 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5327.
All these met with one consent at the salt valley; this is now the Sea of Salt.
And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And the servants of Isaac dug in the Valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water.
And they came to the Valley of the Cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staffs, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs.
And they called that place, The Valley of the Cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
And thence they departed, and encamped in the Valley of Zered.
and they went up to the Valley of the Cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.
And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the Valley of the Cluster, and surveyed it.
Now then, arise ye, said I, and depart, and cross the Valley of Zered.
And the days in which we traveled from Kadesh-barnea till we crossed the Valley of Zered, were thirty and eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war failed, dying out of the camp, as the Lord God swore to them.
Now then arise and depart, and pass over the Valley of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into thy hands Sihon the king of Heshbon the Amorite, and his land: begin to inherit it: engage in war with him this day.
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Gilead; there was not a city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands.
on the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out of the land of Egypt.
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley.
And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;
And Joshua took Achan the son of Zerah, and brought him to the Valley of Achor, and his sons, and his daughters, and his calves, and his asses, and all his sheep, and his tent, and all his property, and all the people were with him; and he brought them to Emec Achor.
Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gibeon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gibeon, And the moon over against the Valley of Aijalon.
And these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel slew, and inherited their land beyond Jordan from the east, from the Valley of Arnon to the mount of Hermon, and all the land of Arabah on the east.
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, ruling from Arnon, which is in the valley, on the side of the valley, and half of Gilead as far as Jabbok, the borders of the children of Ammon.
from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all Misor from Medeba.
And their borders were from Aroer, which is opposite the brook of Arnon, and theirs is the city that is in the Valley of Arnon; and all Misor,
And they go out to Azmon, and issue at the Valley of Egypt; and the termination of its boundaries shall be at the sea: these are their boundaries southward.
And the borders continue on to the fourth part of the Valley of Achor, and go down to Gilgal, which is before the approach of Adummim, which is southward in the valley, and terminate at the water of the fountain of the sun; and their going forth shall be the fountain of Rogel.
And the borders go up to the Valley of Hinnom, behind Jebus southward; this is Jerusalem: and the borders terminate at the top of the mountain, which is before the Valley of Hinnom toward the sea, which is by the side of the land of Rephaim northward.
And the borders shall go down to the Valley of Kanah southward by the Valley of Jezreel (there is a turpentine tree belonging to Ephraim between that and the city of Manasseh): and the borders of Manasseh are northward to the brook; and the sea shall be its termination.
the sea and Magelda, and it shall reach to Beth-arabah in the valley, which is opposite Jokneam.
And they went over Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right of the city which is in the midst of the Valley of Gad and Eliezer.
And he defiled Topheth which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, constructed for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through fire to Molech.
And Asa went out to meet him, and set the battle in array in the valley north of Mareshah.
And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem, both at the gate of the corner and at the valley gate, and at the corners, and he fortified them.
And he appointed captains of war over the people, and they were gathered to meet him to the open place of the gate of the valley, and he encouraged them, saying,
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Zobah, and Joab had returned and smitten in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
He sends forth his fountains among the valleys: The waters shall run between the mountains.
The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.
And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.
therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:
And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Aiath: fear shall seize upon Ramah, the city of Saul.
And the Lord shall make desolate the Sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.
Shall Moab even thus be delivered? for I will bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.
And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;
The word of the Valley of Zion. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?
For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the Valley of Zion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.
And it shall be that thy choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up thy gates.
The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the Valley of Gibeon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.
And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error: error also shall pursue them, and overtake them.
For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.
And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.
who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?
And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the Valley of Achor shall be for a resting place of herds for my people, who have sought me.
And they have built the altar of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in my heart.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Topheth, and the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but, The Valley of the Slain; and they shall bury in Topheth, for want of room.
And they built to Baal the altars that are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and their daughters to King Molech; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.
And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
And the land shall be drenched with thy dung, because of thy multitude upon the mountains: I will fill the valleys with thee.
And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land.
and I will fill thy hills and thy valleys with slain men, and in all thy plains there shall fall in thee men slain with the sword.
therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;
therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the reproaches of the heathen:
and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.
And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial place of them that approach the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and the place shall then be called the burial place of Gog.
Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye valleys even the foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and will plead with Israel.
And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Azal, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
so that their slain shall fill their valleys and brooks, and the river shall be filled with their dead, till it overflow:
Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbor, Now will these men lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight.
For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:
Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay her: thus she abode in the camp three days, and went out in the night into the Valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water by the camp.
and she put it in her bag of meat: so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed the camp, they compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.
Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.
For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God.
fire which burnt day and night. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which
and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow
ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains. And all the ravines were deep and narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon
them. And I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.
Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this
And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley (full) of water. And
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Pharanx (Strong's G5327) is a Greek word most simply glossed "valley". pharagx (far'-agx) n. 1. a gap or chasm, i.e. ravine (winter-torrent) [(properly) strengthened from the base of G4008 or rather of G4486]
This page currently indexes 81 linked usages for Strong's G5327 across 20 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5327 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
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Yes. The current local index includes 67 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 6 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5327, with linked reader references where each row is available.