International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
DALE, KING'S(dal, `emeq hamelekh):
(1) "Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale" (2 Samuel 18:18). According to Josephus (Ant., VII, x, 3) this was a marble pillar, which he calls "Absalom's hand" and it was two furlongs from Jerusalem. Warren suggests that this dale was identical with the KING'S GARDEN (which see), which he places at the open valley formed at the junction of the Tyropoen with the Kidron (see JERUSALEM). The so-called Absalom's Pillar, which the Jews still pelt with stones in reprobation of Absalom's disobedience, and which a comparatively recent tradition associates with 2 Samuel 18:18, is a very much later structure, belonging to the Greco-Roman period, but showing Egyptian influence.
(2) King's Vale (Genesis 14:17; the King James Version dale). See KING'S VALE; VALE.
E. W. G. Masterman
KING'S DALE
See DALE, KING'S.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Dale, the king's
The name of a valley, the alternative for "the valley of Shaveh" (q.v.), near the Dead Sea, where the king of Sodom met Abraham (Genesis 14:17). Some have identified it with the southern part of the valley of Jehoshaphat, where Absalom reared his family monument (2 Samuel 18:18).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
2. (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
Strong's Hebrew
6010. emeq -- a vale... dale, vale, valley often used as a part of proper names. From amaq; a vale (ie Broad
depression) --
dale, vale, valley (often used as a part of proper names).
... /hebrew/6010.htm - 6k 2310. chadel -- forbearing, lacking
... << 2309, 2310. chadel. 2311 >>. forbearing, lacking. Transliteration: chadel
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-dale') Short Definition: forsaken. ...
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1435. Giddel -- "very great," one of the Nethinim, also one of ...
... "very great," one of the Nethinim, also one of Solomon's servants. Transliteration:
Giddel Phonetic Spelling: (ghid-dale') Short Definition: Giddel. ...
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1432. gadel -- becoming great, growing up
... << 1431, 1432. gadel. 1433 >>. becoming great, growing up. Transliteration: gadel
Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-dale') Short Definition: greater. ...
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