גַּיְא gay

Hebrew word for “valley” · Strong’s H1516 · used 60 times in 54 verses

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Meaning

valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge

Senses in the lexicon

• valley (31)
• Valley (8)
• (Salt) Valley (5)
• Valley (Gate) (4)
• Valley (2)
• (Iphtahel) Valley (2)
• (Hamon-gog) Valley (2)
• (Zeboim) Valley (1)
• Gath (1)
• Ge (1)
• (Zephathah) Valley (1)
• Valley (1)
• Valley (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for gay in context, with how often each is used:

• valley 49
• valleys 8
• valley of ben 1
• gath 1
• ge 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 19 (2), 1 Samuel 17 (2), 1 Chronicles 4 (2), Nehemiah 2 (2), Nehemiah 11 (2), Isaiah 22 (2), Isaiah 28 (2), Jeremiah 7 (2), Jeremiah 19 (2), Ezekiel 36 (2)

Forms

• גיא 15
• בגיא 13
• גי 9
• הגיא 6
• בגי 3
• הגאיות 3
• ולגאיות 3
• וגיא 2
• והגי 1
• והגיא 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gay more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• הִנֹּם hinnom “(Topheth of son of) Hinnom” 11
• הַר har “mountain” 15
• אָפִיק aphiq “channel” 5
• מֶלַח melach “salt” 5
• תֹּפֶת tophet “Topheth” 4
• צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 6
• גִּבְעָה givah “hill” 5
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 6
• בֵּית פְּעוֹר bet peor “Beth-peor” 3
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 6
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 6
• עַד ad “till” 7

Key verses

The verses using gay that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Kings 23:10 — And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
• 2 Chronicles 33:6 — And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and…
• Psalms 23:4 — Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
• Psalms 60:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of…
• Isaiah 22:1 — The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
• Isaiah 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are…
• Jeremiah 2:23 — How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing…
• Jeremiah 7:31 — And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I…
• Jeremiah 19:2 — And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
• Jeremiah 32:35 — And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto…
• Ezekiel 7:16 — But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
• Zechariah 14:5 — And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.