Moreh
[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the
sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in
the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?...
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Moreh is a name of a location, commonly used in the Genesis.
Translators who consider the obscure elon moreh of Genesis
12:6 to be the name of a locality, render it as "the plains
of Moreh". Translators who consider the term to be a sacred
tree or grove, often render it "terebinth," a tree notable
for its size and age in dry landscapes of the ...
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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the
land....
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Then Jerubbaal, who [is] Gideon, and all the people that
[were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of
Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north
side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley....
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(teacher).
1. The plain or plains (or, as it should rather be
rendered, the oak or oaks) of Moreh. The oak of Moreh was the
first recorded halting-place of Abram after his entrance into
the land of Canaan. Ge 12:6 It was at the "place of Shechem,"
ch. Ge 12:6 close to the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim. De
11:30
2. The hill of Moreh, at the f...
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an archer, teacher; fruitful. (1.) A Canaanite probably who
inhabited the district south of Shechem, between
Mounts Ebal and
Gerizim, and gave his name to the "plain" there (Gen.
12:6).
Here at this "plain," or rather (R.V.) "oak," of
Moreh, Abraham
built his first altar in the land of Israel; and here
the
Lord appeared unto him. He afterw...
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1. "The plains," rather "the oaks" or "terebinths" of Moreh.
Abram's first halting place in Canaan, near Shechem and Ebal
and Gerizim mountains (Genesis 12:6); here he erected his
first altar. "Morthia," on ancient coins, a title of Shechem,
preserves the name Moreh. Under the same "oak" Jacob hid his
household's idols (Genesis 35:4). Here Jos...
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mo'-re (gibh`ath ha-moreh, "hill of the teacher"; Codex
Vaticanus Gabaathamora; Codex Alexandrinus, tou bomou tou
Abor): The Hebrew moreh is derived from the verb yarah, "to
teach," "to direct," and indicates one who directs, or gives
oracular answers. We might therefore read "hill of the
teacher," the height being associated with such a perso...
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-1. A plain near Shechem and Gilgal
Ge 12:6; De 11:30
-2. A hill on the plain of Jezreel where the Midianites
encamped
Jud 7:1,12...
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