Zechariah 14:4:16Zech.14.4.W16TAB
גֵּ֖יא
ge
“a valley”
- Transliteration
- GE
- Extended
- GEE
- IPA
- /ˈgeːʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- a valley
Alphabet Analysis
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
GE
- clause
ve-a-me-DU rag-la-VAV ba-YOM-ha-HU al-HAR ha-ze-TIM a-SHER al-pe-NE ye-ru-sha-LA-im mi-KE-dem ve-niv-KA HAR ha-ze-TIM me-KHE-tsyo miz-ra-KHA va-ya-MA GE ge-do-LA me-OD
- sentence
ve-a-me-DU rag-la-VAV ba-YOM-ha-HU al-HAR ha-ze-TIM a-SHER al-pe-NE ye-ru-sha-LA-im mi-KE-dem ve-niv-KA HAR ha-ze-TIM me-KHE-tsyo miz-ra-KHA va-ya-MA GE ge-do-LA me-OD u-MASH kha-TSI ha-HAR tsa-fo-NA ve-khe-tsyo-NE-gba
Exegesis
The phrase gei gedolah meod {גֵּיא גְּדוֹלָה מְאֹד | gêʾ gə-dō-lāh mə-ʾōḏ} “very great valley” emphasizes magnitude through an intensifying adverb.
In context — Zechariah 14:4
And His feet shall stand on that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split from its middle eastward and westward, forming a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall move northward and its other half southward.
About this coordinate
Zechariah 14:4:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Zechariah 14:4, so the Hebrew word גֵּ֖יא (ge) 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 Zech.14.4.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Zech.14.4.W16.S1) and character.