(Mount) Moriah
מֹרִיָּהStrong’s H4179moriyyah (mo-riy-yah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moriyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “moriah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”
Meaning
- § Moriah = "chosen by Jehovah"
How it's translated
- moriah 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מֹרִיָּה moriyyah · (Mount) Moriah
§ Moriah = "chosen by Jehovah" the place where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice the mount on the eastern edge of Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple
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.