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(7.) Hebrews shephelah, “low ground,” “low hill-land,” rendered “vale” or “valley” in Authorized Version (Joshua 9:1; 10:40; 11:2; 12:8; Judges 1:9;
1 Kings 10:27). In Authorized Version (1 Chronicles 27:28; 2 Chronicles 26:10) it is also rendered “low country.” In Jeremiah 17:26, Obad. 1:19, Zechariah 7:7, “plain.” The Revised Version renders it uniformly “low land.” When it is preceded by the article, as in Deuteronomy 1:7, Joshua 11:16; 15:33, Jeremiah 32:44; 33:13, Zechariah 7:7, “the shephelah,” it denotes the plain along the Mediterranean from Joppa to Gaza, “the plain of the Philistines.” (See VALLEY.)