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Strong's #1236 - בִּקְעָה
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2034) oqb (בקאה BQAh) AC: Cleave CO: Half AB: ?: A breaking or cleaving of something in half.
V) oqb (בקאה BQAh) - Cleave: To break, cut or divide something in half. KJV (51): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Hophal, Pual, Piel) cleave, divide, rent, break through, breach, hatch - Strongs: H1234 (בָּקַע)
Nm) oqb (בקאה BQAh) - Bekah: A standard of measure. A half shekel weight. KJV (2): half, bekah - Strongs: H1235 (בֶּקַע)
bm) oiqb (בקיאה BQYAh) - Fissure: A breach causing a division. KJV (2): breach, cleft - Strongs: H1233 (בָּקִיעַ)
ef1) eoqib (ביקאהה BYQAhH) - Valley: A wide level valley as a division between mountains. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [df: heqb] KJV (21): plain, valley - Strongs: H1236 (בִּקְעָה), H1237 (בִּקְעָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
בִּקְעָה pl. בְּקָעוֹת, f. a valley (as if a cleaving and separation of mountains), opp. to mountains, Deuteronomy 8:7, 11:11 Psalms 104:8 to hills, Isaiah 41:18. But more often a plain country, widely extended plain (LXX. πεδίον), e.g. that in which Babylon was situated, Genesis 11:2 comp. Ezekiel 3:23, 37:1, Ezekiel 37:2 בִּקְעַת הַלְּבָנוֹן “the valley of Lebanon,” used of the plain at the foot of Hermon and Antilibanus, at the rise of Jordan, Joshua 11:17, 12:7 and not the valley between Libanus and Antilibanus, Cœlesyria of Strabo, Ard el Bŭkĉ’ǎ ارض البقا ع (land of vallies) of the Arabs. Other regions are called from towns near them, as בִּקְעַת מְגִדּוֹן 2 Chronicles 35:22 ב׳ יְרֵחוֹ Deuteronomy 34:3. (Syriac ܦܘܰܢܬܐܳ, Arabic بَقيعُ, بُقْعَةُ and بَقْعَةُ id.)