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G3735ὄρος óros — a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain)H2022הַר har — a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)H2042הָרָר hârâr — a mountainH2906טוּר ṭûwr — a rock or hillH6726צִיּוֹן Tsîyôwn — Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of JerusalemH3844לְבָנוֹן Lᵉbânôwn — Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine
Verses(5+)
- VersePsalms 68:15A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.
- VerseRevelation 16:20Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
- VersePsalms 148:9mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
- VersePsalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- VerseExodus 24:15When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
People(1)
Places(5)
- PlaceMount SinaiThe mountain where, according to Exodus, Moses received the Law from God; its precise geographical identification is debated.
- PlaceMount Sinai (Horeb)The mountain of God in the wilderness where the bush burned, the Law was given in fire and cloud, and the covenant was cut; Elijah later heard the still small voice here.
- PlaceMoriahThe mountain of the binding of Isaac — later the temple mount (2 Chr 3:1).
- PlaceHorebThe mountain of God — Sinai by its other name — where Moses saw the bush and where Elijah, forty days from Beersheba, heard not wind, earthquake, or fire, but a still small voice.
- PlaceAraratThe mountains where the ark came to rest after the Flood (Gen 8:4).
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordG3735 ὄρος · óros (Greek)a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain)
- WordH2022 הַר · har (Hebrew)a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
- WordH2042 הָרָר · hârâr (Hebrew)a mountain
- WordH2906 טוּר · ṭûwr (Hebrew)a rock or hill
- WordH6726 צִיּוֹן · Tsîyôwn (Hebrew)Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
Themes(2)
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
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Prophecies(1)
Feature Pages(4)
- FeatureMicah — the Study GuideJudah's most concrete indictment of injustice, held together with its most concrete hope — a Ruler from the least of Judah's clans whose origin is 'from everlasting.' Three judgment-to-mercy cycles, charted cycle by cycle.
- FeaturePrayer in Luke — Jesus at Every HingeThe Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, the Twelve, the confession, the mountain, the garden, the cross — plus the three prayer-parables found only here.
- FeatureThe Statue and the Stone — Daniel 2 and 7One dream told twice: the metals of Nebuchadnezzar's image set against the beasts of Daniel's night vision, and the stone that becomes a mountain.
- FeatureThe BeatitudesEight blessings from the mountain — each with roots deep in the Psalms and Isaiah — and the shape of the life Jesus calls blessed.
Authors(4)
- AuthorUlrich ZwingliHuldrych Zwingli was born on January 1, 1484, at Wildhaus in the Toggenburg valley of the Swiss Alps — seven weeks after Luther, in a mountain village where his father was the…
- AuthorLance WallnauLance Wallnau is an American evangelical preacher, televangelist, and one of the principal contemporary popularizers of the Seven Mountain Mandate framework. Based in Dallas…
- AuthorAmmonas of EgyptAmmonas was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, after Anthony withdrew to the Inner Mountain by the Red Sea, his successor at Pispir on the Nile. He had already spent fourteen…
- AuthorJohn of DalyathaJohn was born early in the eighth century in Ardamut, in the region of Beth Nuhadra, in the mountains of what is now northern Iraq. He entered the monastery of Mar Yozadaq as a…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource1 Maccabees 16:20And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.
- Study resource1 Enoch 26:2And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south.
- Study resourceSirach 43:21It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
- Study resource2 Esdras 13:6But I beheld, and, lo, he had graved himself a great mountain, and flew up upon it.
- Study resourceSong of the Three 1:55O ye mountains, bless ye the Lord: Praise and exalt him above all for ever.