Valley (of Achor)
e.meq is a valley or low-lying tract, named in locations, borders, farming areas, and scenes of movement or battle.
The term denotes a valley or low-lying tract, most often identifying a particular named or otherwise specified location; the same terrain is also described as a place of fields, livestock, travel, and military activity.
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Valley or low-lying tract · dominant
The singular and plural noun forms identify terrain, often in a construct relation with a place name or descriptor. In Genesis 14:10 the APB renders the Valley of Siddim as containing bitumen wells; in Joshua 15:8 it traces a border through the valley of the son of Hinnom and the valley of Rephaim; and in Judges 1:19 the valley is terrain whose inhabitants had iron chariots. The plural form likewise refers to such terrain in Isaiah 22:7, where the APB renders the choicest valleys as filled with chariots.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “valley,” including named expressions such as “Valley of Siddim” and “valley of Rephaim.” Its whole-verse translation also uses plural “valleys” where the supplied morphology is plural.