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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Mountain
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(Hebrew har). Both single heights, as Sinai, Zion, etc., and ranges as Lebanon. Also a mountainous region, "the mountain of Israel" and "Judah" (; ), i.e. the highland as opposed to the plain, the hill country (). "Mount Ephraim" is Ephraim's hilly country (). "The mount of the valley" () a district E. of Jordan in Reuben, the vale of Siddim (; ) according to Keil. Even more than with ourselves the parts of a mountain are compared to bodily members: the head KJV "top," the ears Aznoth Tabor (), the shoulder, the back.