Bible Names

Shaveh: meaning of the name

Shaveh means “the plain; that makes equality.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Shaveh in Hebrew and Greek

שָׁוֵה H7740

Shâvêh (shaw-vay') — Shaveh, a place in Palestine

from H7737 (שָׁוָה); plain;

Shaveh in Scripture

“Shaveh” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 14:5

    And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

  • Genesis 14:17

    And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.