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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Siddim, Vale of
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Vale
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Vale of Mambre
• Mambre, Vale of
People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Vallee (or Valee), Simon
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Tempe, Vale of
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Rephaim, Vale of
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Vale, Valley. Five Hebrew words are translated "vale" or "valley." 1. Emek, signifying a "deep" broad valley, as the valley of Achor, Aijalon, Elan, Jezreel, Succoth, etc. 2. Gai or ge, signifying a "bursting," and used to designate narrow ravines or glens, as of Hinnom or Salt. Deuteronomy 34:6. 3. Nachal, meaning a "wâdy-bed," filled with water in winter, but dry in summer. Such, beds or valleys were Chereth, Eshcol, Sorek, Zered, etc. 4. Bikʾah, properly a "cleft," but applied to a broader space than a cleft or valley, and meaning sometimes a "plain," as that between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon and Megiddo. Joshua 11:17; Joshua 13:17; Zechariah 12:11. 5. Has-Shephelah, wrongly rendered "vale" in A. V., but "lowland" in R. V., meant a broad tract of low Mils between the mountains of Judah and the coast-plain. Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 10:40.