מוֹרִיָּהMôwrîyâh

proper name [of a location]: place for sacrificing Isaac (Genesis 22:2; 2 Chronicles 3:1)

Pronunciation: mo-ree-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4179

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 22:2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
  • 2 Chronicles 3:1 So Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the site that David had selected.

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).