Shaveh
ἡ κοιλὰς τοῦ Σαβύ
Shaveh (LXX. Vat. ἡ κοιλὰς τοῦ Σαβύ, Alex. ἡ Σαυή). The valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale,
where Melchizedek met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings. (Gen. 14.17.) The learned are not agreed concerning the city of Melchizedek. They who regard his Salem as identical with Jerusalem, naturally identify the king's dale,
equivalent to the valley of Shaveh,
with the king's dale
where Absalom erected his monument (2 Sam. 18.18), and place it in the vicinity of the king's gardens,
in the valley of the Kedron, where tradition points out Absalom's hand
or place. [JERUSALEM] Vol. II. p. 17a. and p. 23b.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.