(Mount) Gerizim
גְּרִזִיםStrong’s H1630gerizim (ge-ri-zim)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gerizim is the Hebrew word usually translated “gerizim”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.”
Meaning
- § Gerizim = "cuttings off"
How it's translated
- gerizim 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 27:12These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
- Joshua 8:33And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
- Judges 9:7And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּרִזִים gerizim · (Mount) Gerizim
§ Gerizim = "cuttings off" a mountain in northern Israel in Ephraim near Shechem from which the blessings were read to the Israelites on entering Canaan; site of the Samaritan temple built after the captivity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.