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• VAGABOND from Lat. vagabundus, “a wanderer,” “a fugitive;” not used
  opprobriously (Genesis 4:12, R.V., “wanderer;” Psalm 109:10; Acts
  19:13, R.V., “strolling”).


• VAJEZATHA purity; worthy of honour, one of Haman’s sons, whom the
  Jews slew in the palace of Shushan (Esther 9:9).


• VALLEY (1.) Hebrews bik’ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deuteronomy
  8:7; 11:11; Psalm 104:8; Isaiah 41:18); also a low plain bounded by
  mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the
  sources of the Jordan (Joshua 11:17; 12:7), and the valley of Megiddo (2
  Chronicles 35:22).

(2.) ‘Emek, “deep;” “a long, low plain” (Job 39:10, 21; Psalm 65:13; Cant.
2:1), such as the plain of Esdraelon; the “valley of giants” (Joshua 15:8),
usually translated “valley of Rephaim” (2 Samuel 5:18); of Elah (1 Samuel
17:2), of Berachah (2 Chronicles 20:26); the king’s “dale” (Genesis 14:17);
of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:2, 12), of Achor (Joshua 7:24; Isaiah 65:10),
Succoth (Psalm 60:6), Ajalon (Joshua 10:12), Jezreel (Hos. 1:5).

(3.) Ge, “a bursting,” a “flowing together,” a narrow glen or ravine, such as
the valley of the children of Hinnom (2 Kings 23:10); of Eshcol
(Deuteronomy 1:24); of Sorek (Judges 16:4), etc.

The “valley of vision” (Isaiah 22:1) is usually regarded as denoting
Jerusalem, which “may be so called,” says Barnes (Com. on Isaiah ),
“either (1) because there were several valleys within the city and adjacent
to it, as the vale between Mount Zion and Moriah, the vale between
Mount Moriah and Mount Ophel, between these and Mount Bezetha, and
the valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley of the brook Kidron, etc., without the
walls of the city; or (2) more probably it was called the valley in reference
to its being compassed with hills rising to a considerable elevation above
the city” (Psalm 125:2; comp. also Jeremiah 21:13, where Jerusalem is
called a “valley”).

(4.) Hebrews nahal, a wady or water-course (Genesis 26:19; Cant. 6:11).