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Mountain

הַרStrong’s H2022

har

Appears in 485 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Har is the Hebrew word usually translated “mountain of”, “mountain” and “mountains”. It appears in 485 verses of the Old Testament.

“O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.”
Daniel 9:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Hill, mountain, hill country, mount
How it's translated
  • mountain of 77
  • the mountain 64
  • mountains 53
  • the mountains 52
  • on mountain of 36
  • in hill country of 25
  • the hill country 20
  • hill country of 19

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 56
  • Deuteronomy 44
  • Psalms 43
  • Joshua 42
  • Ezekiel 42
  • Exodus 38

35 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 485 verses, by book
Nehemiah 2
8:159:13
Proverbs 2
8:2527:25
Song of Solomon 5
2:82:174:14:68:14
Lamentations 2
4:195:18
Hosea 2
4:1310:8
Jonah 1
2:6
Habakkuk 2
3:33:10
Zephaniah 1
3:11
Haggai 2
1:81:11
Malachi 1
1:3
Hebrew dictionary

הַר har · mountain

: mount/hill hill, mountain, hill country, mount

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “mountain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MOUNT'AIN, noun

[Latin adjective, montanus.]

A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, but of no definite altitude. We apply mountain to the largest eminences on the globe; but sometimes the word is used for a large hill. In general, mountain denotes an elevation higher and larger than a hill; as the Altaic mountains in Asia, the Alps in Switzerland, the Andes in South America, the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, the Catskill in New York, the White mountains in New Hampshire, and the Green mountains in Vermont. The word is applied to a single elevation, or to an extended range.

    All definitions and other forms of “mountain”

      MOUNT'AIN, adjective

      Pertaining to a mountain; found on mountains; growing or dwelling on a mountain; as mountain air; mountain pines; mountain goats.

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.