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Hebrew gibeah, "a carved, rounded hill"; frequent in the Holy Land. Har, mistranslated "hill;" it means a" mountain range or district" (; -13; ; ; -45). The "hill" in , compare 8, is the Mount of Olives. "The hills," ; , is the mountain district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim (). The "holy hill," "hill of Jehovah," etc., ; , is mount Zion. Carmel should be called the mount, not "a hill" (; ; compare ). Maleh should be "ascent," not "hill" (, margin). In ; , "the hill" (oros) is the mountain of transfiguration. In "the hill country" ought to be translated "the mountain country" of Judah.