Crossword-Solution: EMEK 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When a boy in school desires to say eighteen, he must first of all take a good deep breath, for _sohok-emek-wakthla-mok-eminick-antanthlama_ is no short word.

Joseph Hacohen, the author of _Emek Habacha_, state that 1,000 Jewish families lived in the city at that time.

Can this be a confused tradition of the rout of the Philistines to Shaaraim on the fall of Goliath? The vale or plain (for in Hebrew the word _Emek_ is often applied to the latter also when lying between ranges of hills--sometimes even when they are of considerable breadth, as at Rephaim and elsewhere) is about three hours or twelve miles long, and spacious enough to allow of military occupation and action; hostile armies might of course also occupy the opposite hills.