Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
Valley (of Jericho)
Usage: This name means plain, level valley Another name of kik.kar (כִּכָּר "Plain" H3603G)
Biqah means “valley” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1237 — diadechomai (“come after”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1237 בִּקעָה (biq`ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. biq`ah (bik-aw') n-f. 1. (properly) a split 2. a wide level valley between mountains It has 20 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include valley, plain, and valleys. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
biq`ah (bik-aw') n-f. 1. (properly) a split 2. a wide level valley between mountains [from H1234] KJV: plain, valley. Root(s): H1234
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Valley (of Jericho)
Usage: This name means plain, level valley Another name of kik.kar (כִּכָּר "Plain" H3603G)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render biq`ah, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1237.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1237, grouped by book.
Biqah (Strong's H1237) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "valley". biq`ah (bik-aw') n-f. 1. (properly) a split 2. a wide level valley between mountains
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H1237 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1237 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as valley, plain, and valleys. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.