Horeb
חֹרֵבStrong’s H5514chorev (cho-rev)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chorev is the Hebrew word usually translated “sinai” and “from sinai”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Horeb = "desert"
- § Sinai = "thorny"
How it's translated
- sinai 34
- from sinai 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 13
- Numbers 12
- Leviticus 4
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 19:1In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 19:2For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
- Exodus 19:11And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
- Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Exodus 19:20And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
- Exodus 19:23And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹרֵב chorev · Horeb
Horeb = "desert" another name for Mount Sinai from which God gave the law to Moses and the Israelites Another name of si.nay (סִינַי "Sinai" H5514G)
סִינַי sinay · Sinai
§ Sinai = "thorny" the mountain where Moses received the Law from Jehovah; located at the southern end of the Sinai peninsula between the horns of the Red Sea; exact
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.