עֵמֶק
ʻêmeq · ay'-mek
a vale (i.e. broad depression)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6009 (עָמַק);
a vale (i.e. broad depression)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dale, vale, valley (often used as a part of proper names). See also H1025 (בֵּית הָעֵמֶק).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵמֶק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
69 occurrences · 69 OT · 0 NT · 39 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in the valley14 · 25%
- of the valley7 · 12%
- the valley5 · 9%
- themselves in the valley4 · 7%
- dale2 · 4%
- and the valley2 · 4%
- to the valley2 · 4%
- into the valley2 · 4%
- of the valleys2 · 4%
- the valleys2 · 4%
- in the vale1 · 2%
- with them in the vale1 · 2%
- and the vale1 · 2%
- that were with him, at the valley1 · 2%
- him out of the vale1 · 2%
- them unto the valley1 · 2%
- and in the valley1 · 2%
- from the valley1 · 2%
- and they who are of the valley1 · 2%
- and which is in the valley1 · 2%
- was beneath him in the valley1 · 2%
- along in the valley1 · 2%
- and it was in the valley1 · 2%
- by the valley1 · 2%
- were in the valley1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.