• Heb. 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 , Obadiah 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 .)

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    Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Plain'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/p/plain.html. 1897.