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Dictionaries :: Mount, Mountain

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g3735 Greek: oros

Mount, Mountain:

is used

(a) without specification, e.g., Luk 3:5 (distinct from bounos, "a hill," see HILL, No. 3); Jhn 4:20;

(b) of "the Mount of Transfiguration," Mat 17:1, 9; Mar 9:2, 9; Luk 9:28, 37 (AV, "hill"); 2Pe 1:18;

(c) of "Zion," Hbr 12:22; Rev 14:1;

(d) of "Sinai," Act 7:30, 38; Gal 4:24, 25; Hbr 8:5; 12:20;

(e) of "the Mount of Olives," Mat 21:1; 24:3; Mar 11:1; 13:3; Luk 19:29, 37; 22:39; Jhn 8:1; Act 1:12;

(f) of "the hill districts as distinct from the lowlands," especially of the hills above the Sea of Galilee, e.g., Mat 5:1; 8:1; 18:12; Mar 5:5;

(g) of "the mountains on the east of Jordan" and "those in the land of Ammon" and "the region of Petra," etc., Mat 24:16; Mar 13:14; Luk 21:21;

(h) proverbially, "of overcoming difficulties, or accomplishing great things," 1Cr 13:2; cp. Mat 17:20; 21:21; Mar 11:23;

(i) symbolically, of "a series of the imperial potentates of the Roman dominion, past and future," Rev 17:9.
See HILL.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mount, Mountain:

The Hebrew word har, like the English "mountain." is employed for both single eminences more or less isolated, such as Sinai, Gerizim, Ebal, Zion and Olivet, and for ranges, such as Lebanon. It is also applied to a mountainous country or district.

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