Mountain
טוּרStrong’s H6697tur
Appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tur is the Hebrew word usually translated “rock”, “rock my” and “rock of”. It appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.”
Meaning
- Combined with ya.el (יָעֵל "Wildgoats'" H3277)
- Mountain
How it's translated
- the rock 10
- a rock 10
- rock my 9
- rock of 7
- rock 5
- rocks 3
- rock their 3
- from rock of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 26
- Isaiah 11
- Deuteronomy 8
- Job 7
- 2 Samuel 5
- Exodus 3
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 33:21And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
- Exodus 33:22And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
- Numbers 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 8:15Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
All 74 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
צוּר tsur · Rocks (of Goats)
Combined with ya.el (יָעֵל "Wildgoats'" H3277) This name means rock, cliff
טוּר tur · mountain
mountain Aramaic of tsur (צוּר "rock" H6697H)
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.