עֵ֫מֶק70 noun masculine[Mic 1:4] vale (properly deepening, depth, see GASmGeogr. 384 f. 654 f.; compare בִּקְעָה, גַּיְא, נַחַל); — ׳י absolute [Josh 8:13] +, construct [Gen 14:17] +; suffix עִמְקֵךְ [Jer 49:4], עִמְקָם [Jer 47:5] (but see below); plural עֲמָקִים [Mic 1:4], suffix עֲמָקַיִךְ [Isa 22:7] — vale, valley, lowland, opposed to הֶהָרִים [Mic 1:4], amid mountains, e.g. about Jerusalem [Isa 22:7]; [Jer 31:40], so perhaps לשׁוֵה ׳ע [Gen 14:17] = הַמֶּלֶךְ ׳ע v[Gen 14:17]; [2Sam 18:18], compare תֶבְרוֺן ׳ע [Gen 37:14] (J), בְּגִבְעוֺן ׳ע [Isa 28:21]; [Josh 8:13] (JE), הָאֵלָה ׳ע [1Sam 17:2]; [1Sam 17:19]; [1Sam 21:10] (perhaps Wady es-Sant, in Shephelah, west of Bethlehem, GASmGeogr. 226); אֲשֶׁר לְבֵית רְחוֺב ׳ע [Judg 18:28] in extreme north; in Moab [Jer 48:8] (|| [opposed to?] מִישׁוֺר); or wider, e.g. [Judg 5:15] (scene of Sisera's defeat; read perhaps ׳ע also for עֲמָלֵק v[Judg 5:14] GFM), יִזְרְעֶ֑אל ׳ע [Judg 6:33]; [Hos 1:5]; [Josh 17:16] (JE), compare [Judg 7:1]; [Judg 7:8]; [Judg 7:12]; [1Sam 31:7] = [1Chr 10:7], these all perhaps narrow ends of plain (compare GASml.c.), but see [1Kgs 20:28] (opposed to הֶהָרִים; || מִישׁוֺר v[1Kgs 20:23] = open country, compare Aphek v[1Kgs 20:26]); of Jordan-valley [Josh 13:19]; [Josh 13:27] (P); of maritime plain (opposed to הָהָר) [Judg 1:19]; [Judg 1:34] fit for chariots, so also אֶרֶץ ׳הָע [Josh 17:16] (P), compare [Job 39:21] ׳ישֶׁבֶת הָע [Jer 21:13], compare [Num 14:25] (see Gie di); cultivated [1Sam 6:13]; [Jer 49:4] (twice in verse); [Job 39:10], fertile [1Chr 27:29]; [Ps 65:14]; [Song 2:1] see also אַיָּלוֺן, בָּכָא, כְּרָכָה, II. חָרוּץ, יְהוֺשָׁפָט, סֻכּוֺת, עָכוֺר, קְצִיץ, רְפָאִים, שִׂדִּים; ׳בֵּית הָע. — For עִמְקָם [Jer 47:5] read עֲנָקִם Anakim ᵐ5 Thes Hi Gf Gie Co Rothst; so also (more dubious) [1Chr 12:16] (van d. H. v.[1Chr 12:15]) Gf Gie, where otherwise ׳הָע = people of valleys.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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