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# הֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2023

**Hor** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2023/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֹר: n.pr.mont. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2023/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.mont. mt. on border of Edom, always הֹר הָהָר, named as stage in Isr.’s journey to Canaan Nu 20:22; 21:4; 33:37 Dt 32:50; as place of Aaron’s death Nu 20:23, 25, 27; 33:38, 39, 41 Dt 32:50 (all P); = mod. Jebel Nebi Hârûn c. 50 miles S. of Dead Sea, just S. (SW.) of Petra, according to RobBR ii, 125, 152, cf. 519 ff. BdPal. 153; disputed by Ew Kn Di, & especially TrumbullKadesh Barnea 128 ff., who thinks of J. Madurah, NW. of Edom. a NE. spur of Lebanon Nu 34:7, 8 (P); mod. Jebel ʿAkkar cf. PorterDamascus, ed. 2, p. 333 NbrGéogr. du Talm. p. 9 FurrerZPV viii. 27; yet v. Di.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hor (12).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.41/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵהֹ֣ר הָהָ֑ר וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּצַלְמֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Hor the mountain and they.encamped at Zalmonah

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.

[Numbers 20:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.22/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִקָּדֵ֑שׁ וַיָּבֹ֧אוּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל כָּל־הָעֵדָ֖ה הֹ֥ר הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Kadesh and they.came the.people of.Israel all the congregation Hor the mountain

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Kadesh; and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2023.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2023/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).