# H1516 גַּיְא

גַּיְא (gayʼ), Strong’s H1516: a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent) KJV: valley.. Occurs 60 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H1516 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*gayʼ* — a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent)

KJV: valley.

Derived from [גֵּוָה gêvâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1466) (exaltation)

Occurs 60 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גַּיְא n.m. valley

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 21:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=20) — and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
- [Deuteronomy 3:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=29) — So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
- [Deuteronomy 4:46](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=46) — beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon…
- [Deuteronomy 34:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/34?v=6) — He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
- [Joshua 8:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=11) — All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on…
- [Joshua 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=8) — The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward…
- [Joshua 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/18?v=16) — The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in…
- [Joshua 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=14) — The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;
- [Joshua 19:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=27) — It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth…
- [1 Samuel 13:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/13?v=18) — another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the…