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גַּיְא

valley

H1516 Strong's Hebrew
gayʼ Transliteration
/gah'-ee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 62 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Noun
A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.

Noun type

Common
A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Proper
A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).

State

Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.

Gender

Both
Attested as both masculine and feminine.

Number

Singular
One.
Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

Grammatical forms

  • Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 30 times (48%)
  • Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 15 times (24%)
  • Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 9 times (15%)
  • Noun, Proper 7 times (11%)
  • Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 1 time (2%)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 62 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

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2 Samuel 1 verse

2 Kings 3 verses

1 Chronicles 3 verses

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Psalms 2 verses

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Jeremiah 6 verses

Ezekiel 9 verses

Micah 1 verse

Zechariah 2 verses

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