Strong H3157H3157Lיִזְרְעֶאל
(Valley of) Jezreel
One of the 6 senses of Strong H3157
- Transliteration
- yizre‛ê'l
- Pronunciation
- yiz-reh-ale'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Combined with e.meq (עֵ֫מֶק " Valley" H6010M)
Meaning of the name
Jezreel = "God sows"
General definition
In the biblical story
Jezreel Valley
A fertile valley in northern Israel, site of many battles
The Jezreel Valley, a strategically important and fertile valley in northern Israel, was the site of several significant battles in the Bible.
In the Bible
Strong H3157L appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- jezreel3
First verses
- Joshua 17:16And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth–shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
- Judges 6:33Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
- Hosea 1:5And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.