Bible Dictionary · H
Hill
(1.) Heb. gib’eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Ps 65:12; Ps 72:3; Ps 114:4, Ps 114:6).
(2.) Heb. har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual eminence (Ex 24:4, Ex 24:12, Ex 24:13, Ex 24:18; Num 14:40, Num 14:44, Num 14:45). In Deut 1:7, Josh 9:1; Josh 10:40; Josh 11:16, it denotes the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
(3.) Heb. ma’aleh in 1 Sam 9:11. Authorized Version “hill” is correctly rendered in the Revised Version “ascent.”
(4.) In Luke 9:37 the “hill” is the Mount of Transfiguration.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
