vale

noun (vale, vales)

«vale» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A vale is a valley, a low green piece of land between hills. It is a poetic and old-fashioned word. tree →

in old poems and fairy tales, a vale is a pleasant green place where people live, walk or sing

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In the Torah it is a valley name, like the Vale of Siddim near the Dead Sea, where kings fought in Abraham's time.

Interpretation. Tradition sees the Salt Sea as a place covered over where Sodom and Gomorrah once stood.

All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea. (Torah GEN.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →
Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the Vale; tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.' (Torah NUM.14.25, JPS 1917) tree →
Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain. (Torah GEN.14.10, JPS 1917) tree →
now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, are in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.' (Prophets 1SA.17.19, JPS 1917) tree →
And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. (Prophets 1SA.17.2, JPS 1917) tree →

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