הַרhar

הוֺר: everlasting mountains (Genesis 49:26)

Pronunciation: har · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2022

Meanings

הַר: mountain, hill, hill-country

1. mountain, hill

a. mountain, high elevation, Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:11; Exodus 19:18; Exodus 19:20)

b. mountain-range (Psalms 68:16; Psalms 68:17)

c. mountain (Job 14:18; Genesis 7:20; Genesis 7:19)

d. high mountain (Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 52:7)

e. id. (Joshua 12:8; Deuteronomy 1:7; Jeremiah 17:26)

f. the burrows, which are in the mountains (Judges 6:2; Psalms 11:1; Jeremiah 16:16)

k. melting with blood, height (Isaiah 34:3; 1 Samuel 17:3)

in various combinations (Isaiah 65:7; Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 3:25)

2. hill-country, mountain-region

a. the hill-country, the mountains (Numbers 13:17; Numbers 13:29; Deuteronomy 1:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 546 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 7:19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
  • Genesis 7:20 rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks.
  • Genesis 8:4 exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
  • Genesis 8:5 Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
  • Genesis 10:30 The territory they occupied extended from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern mountains.
  • Genesis 12:8 After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord, and he worshiped the Lord.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).