הָרָרhârâr
mountain, hill, hill-country
Pronunciation: haw-rawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2042
Meanings
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 12 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 23:7 This was the message Balaam delivered: “Balak summoned me to come from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me! Come and announce Israel’s doom.’
- Deuteronomy 8:9 It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. It is a land where iron is as common as stone, and copper is abundant in the hills.
- Deuteronomy 33:15 with the finest crops of the ancient mountains, and the abundance from the everlasting hills;
- Psalms 30:7 Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.
- Psalms 36:6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
- Psalms 50:10 For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
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).