Mount Hor
hor (hor ha-har; literally, "Hor, the mountain"):
1. Not Jebel Neby Harun:
(1) a tradition identifying this mountain with Jebel Neby
Harun may be traced from the time of Josephus (Ant., IV, iv,
7) downward. Eusebius, Onomasticon (s.v. Hor) favors this
identification, which has been accepted by many travelers
and scholars. In HDB, while noting t...
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The mountain upon which Aaron died
Nu 20:22-29; 21:4; 33:38,39; 34:7,8; De 32:50...
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(mountain), Mount.
1. The mountain on which Aaron died. Nu 20:25,27 It
was "on the boundary line," Nu 20:23 or "at the edge," ch.
Nu 33:37 of the land of Edom. It was the halting-place of
the people next after Kadesh, ch. Nu 20:22; 33:37 and they
quitted it for Zalmonah, ch. Nu 33:41 in the road to the Red
Sea. ch. Nu 21:4 It was during the e...
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mountain. (1.) One of the mountains of the chain of Seir or
Edom, on the confines of Idumea (Num. 20:22-29;
33:37). It was
one of the stations of the Israelites in the
wilderness (33:37),
which they reached in the circuitous route they were
obliged to
take because the Edomites refused them a passage
through their
territory. It was during t...
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1. The mount in which Aaron died (Numbers 20:22-23; Numbers
20:25-28). An archaic form of har, "mountain." The only
instance in which the proper name comes first, "Hor the
mountain," the mount upon the mountain. It "rises like a
huge castellated building from a lower base" (Stanley, Sinai
and Israel, 86). Now Jebel Harun" by the coast (or
'ed...
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And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor....
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And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered
unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and
was gathered unto his people:...
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