חֹרֵבChôrêb
Choreb, a (generic) name for the Sinaitic mountains
Pronunciation: kho-rabe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2722
Meanings
proper name [of a mountain]: Horeb, the sacred mountain of the wilderness, no geographical difference from סִינַי discoverable (Exodus 3:1; 1 Kings 19:8; Exodus 17:6; Exodus 33:6; Deuteronomy 1:2)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 3:1 One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 17:6 I will stand before you on the rock at Mount Sinai. Strike the rock, and water will come gushing out. Then the people will be able to drink.” So Moses struck the rock as he was told, and water gushed out as the elders looked on.
- Exodus 33:6 So from the time they left Mount Sinai, the Israelites wore no more jewelry or fine clothes.
- Deuteronomy 1:2 Normally it takes only eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, going by way of Mount Seir.
- Deuteronomy 1:6 “When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
- Deuteronomy 1:19 “Then, just as the Lord our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and traveled through the great and terrifying wilderness, as you yourselves remember, and headed toward the hill country of the Amorites. When we arrived at Kadesh-barnea,
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).