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Original Word: בִּקְעָה. Part of Speech: Noun Feminine. Transliteration: biqah. Phonetic Spelling: (bik-aw') Definition: a valley, plain. NAS Exhaustive Concordance. Word Origin. from baqa. Definition. a valley, plain. NASB Translation. broad valley (1), plain (7), valley (8), valleys (4).
Judeo-Arabic is pronounced differently from Moroccan Arabic and includes some Hebrew words. Jews used the Hebrew alphabet to write it. Most Jews in central and southern Morocco spoke Judeo-Arabic as at least one of their languages, even in areas where the Tamazight language was spoken by their Muslim neighbors.
Oct 23, 2014 · In this latter province, the Ait Bougemez Valley (Morocco’s so-called ‘Happy Valley’) exhibits a fascinating element of Berber history. A communal granary (in the local Berber dialect, agadir) sits on the summit of a strangely pyramidal hill that was once the site of pilgrimages to the Jewish saint, Sidi Moussa.
Hebrew has two words for the geological phenomenon we call in English a valley. עמק. is the more common term. The word is composed of the root ע.מ.ק meaning deep: a valley is a deep part of the land, when compared with the mountains around it. For example: הם גרים בעמק הסיליקון. They live in Silicon Valley. בקעה.
The first irrefutable evidence of Jews in what is now Morocco, in the form of gravestone epitaphs in Hebrew at Volubilis and the ruins of a third century synagogue, dates back to late antiquity. [4] Emily Gottreich contends that Jewish migration to Morocco predates the full formation of Judaism, as the Talmud was "written and redacted between ...
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A literal translation is "Valley of the Bakha", although the translations into Biblical Greek assumed it to be the similar-sounding word בכה ("bakhah"), "crying", and translates it as ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι τοῦ κλαυθμῶνος ("Valley of Mourning", "Valley of Weeping").