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.
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