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# חֹרֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2722

**Horeb** — used 17 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

Horeb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2722/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹרֵב: n.pr.mont. Horeb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2722/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.mont. Horeb (waste, desert)—𝔊 Χωρηβ (v. LagBN 85); אֶל־הַר הָאֱלֹהִים חֹרֵ֑בָה Ex 3:1 (E), cf. עַד הַר הָאֱלֹהִים חֹרֵב 1 K 19:8; הַצּוּר בִּחֹרֵב Ex 17:6, הַר חוֹרֵב 33:6 (both E); מֵחֹרֵב, בְּחֹרֵב Dt 1:2, 6, 19; 4:10, 15; 5:2; 9:8; 18:16; 28:69; 1 K 8:9 2 Ch 5:10 ψ 106:19 Mal 3:22; the sacred mountain of the wilderness, no geograph. diff. from סִינַי discoverable, but synonym of it in E and (especially) D (except poem Dt 33:2; vid. סִינַי P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Horeb (15); of Horeb (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 106:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.19/#tree)

יַעֲשׂוּ־עֵ֥גֶל בְּחֹרֵ֑ב וַ֝יִּשְׁתַּחֲו֗וּ לְמַסֵּכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.made a.calf at Horeb and they.bowed.down to a.molten.image

*JPS 1917:* They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.

[Deuteronomy 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.5.2/#tree)

יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ כָּרַ֥ת עִמָּ֛נוּ בְּרִ֖ית בְּחֹרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh God our he.made with us a.covenant at Horeb

*JPS 1917:* The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2722.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2722/): 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).