Joshua 15:8:3Josh.15.8.W3TAB
גֵּ֣י
gei
“by the valley”
- Transliteration
- GEI
- Extended
- GEE
- IPA
- /ˈgeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- by the valley
Alphabet Analysis
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
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GEI
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GEI ven-hin-NOM
- clause
ve-a-LA hag-VOOL GEI ven-hin-NOM el-KE-tef hai-vu-SI mi-NE-gev HI ye-ru-sha-LA-yim
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ve-a-LA hag-VOOL GEI ven-hin-NOM el-KE-tef hai-vu-SI mi-NE-gev HI ye-ru-sha-LA-yim ve-a-LA hag-VOOL el-ROSH ha-HAR a-SHER al-pe-NEI gei-hin-NOM ya-MAH a-SHER bik-TSEH E-mek-re-fa-IM tsa-FO-na
Exegesis
A primary construct chain gei ben-hinnom {גֵּי־בֶן־הִנֹּ֗ם | gē-ben-hinnōm} ‘Valley of Ben-Hinnom’ is qualified by the prepositional phrase ’el ketef hayevusi {אֶל־כֶּתֶף הַיְבוּסִי֙ | ’el-ke-teph hayə-bû-sî} ‘to the slope of the Jebusite,’ precisely locating the path.
The relative pronoun ’ă-šer {אֲשֶׁר | ’ă-šer} ‘which’ links rōš hā-har {רֹאשׁ הָהָר | rōš hā-har} ‘top of the hill’ to gē-hinnōm {גֵי־הִנֹּם | gē-hinnōm} ‘Valley of Hinnom,’ while the locative suffixes ‑yā-ma {יָמָה | yā-ma} and ‑ṣā-pō-nā {צָפוֹנָה | ṣā-pō-nā} on yamah and tsafonah supply westward and northward directions, preserving the Hebrew’s geographic progression in translation.
Root and etymology
Rootgimmel–yod–aleph
“valley”
In context — Joshua 15:8
And the boundary rose through the Valley of Ben-Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite , at the southern edge marking Jerusalem, and then ascended to the top of the hill before the Valley of Hinnom, westward, ending at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim .
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:8:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Joshua 15:8, so the Hebrew word גֵּ֣י (gei) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Josh.15.8.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.8.W3.S1) and character.