Place · Valley
Valley of Baca
Named in 1 verse, first in Psalms 84:6.
The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Valley of Hinnom.
In the Bible
All 1 verse, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Psalms
- Psalms 84:6
As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
(Ps. 84:6; R.V., “valley of weeping,” marg., “or balsam trees”), probably a valley in some part of Palestine, or generally some one of the valleys through which pilgrims had to pass on their way to the sanctuary of Jehovah on Zion; or it may be figuratively “a valley of weeping.”