hills Summary and Overview

From the Hebrew Gibeah, meaning a curved round hill. But our translators have also employed the same English word for the very different term har, which has a much more extended sense than gibeah, meaning a whole district. For instance, in #Ex 24:4| the "hill" is the same which is elsewhere in the same chapter, vs. #Ex 24:12,13,18| etc., and book consistently and accurately rendered "mount" and "mountain." The "country of the hills," in #De 1:7; Jos 9:1; 10:40; 11:16| is the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim, which is correctly called "the mountain" in the earliest descriptions of Israel, #Nu 13:29| and in many subsequent passages.