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mō´re (המּורה גּבצת, gibh‛ath ha-moÌ„reh, “hill of the teacherâ€; Codex Vaticanus ΓαβααθαμωÏαÌ, GabaathamoÌ„raÌ; Codex Alexandrinus, τοῦ βωμοῦ τοῦ ἈβωÌÏ, touÌ boÌ„mouÌ touÌ AboÌ„Ìr): The Hebrew moÌ„reh is derived from the verb yaÌ„raÌ„h, “to teach,†“to direct,†and indicates one who directs, or gives oracular answers. We might therefore read “hill of the teacher,†the height being associated with such a person who had his seat here. The hill is named only in describing the position of the Midianites before Gideon's attack (). If the identification of the Well of Harod with ‛Ain JaluÌ„d is correct, Gideon must have occupied the slopes to the East of Jezreel. The Midianite camp was in the valley of Jezreel (). The Hebrew text in , which has probably suffered some corruption, seems to mean that the Midianites lay North of the position held by Gideon, their lines running from the hill of Moreh in the plain. The hill can hardly have been other than Jebel ed-DuhÌ£y, often called Little Hermon, which rises boldly from the northern edge of the vale of Jezreel, with Shunem (SoÌ„lam) lying at its western foot. Moore (“Judges,†ICC, 200) would lay the scene in the neighborhood of Shechem, but there is no good reason to doubt the accuracy of the tradition which places it at the eastern end of the plain of Esdraelon.