Hor
Mountain. (1.) One of the mountains of the chain of Seir or Edom, on the confines of Idumea (Num 20:22–29; Num 33:37). It was one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num 33:37), which they reached in the circuitous route they were obliged to take because the Edomites refused them a passage through their territory. It was during the encampment here that Aaron died (Num 33:37–41). (See Aaron.) The Israelites passed this mountain several times in their wanderings. It bears the modern name of Jebel Harun, and is the highest and most conspicious of the whole range. It stands about midway between the Dead Sea and the Elanitic gulf. It has two summits, in the hallow between which it is supposed that Aaron died. Others, however, suppose that this mountain is the modern Jebel Madurah, on the opposite, i.e., the western, side of the Arabah.
(2.) One of the marks of the northern boundary of Palestine (Num 34:7, Num 34:8). Nowhere else mentioned. Perhaps it is one of the peaks of Lebanon.
Named in the Bible
12 verses
- Numbers 20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
- Numbers 20:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
- Numbers 20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
- Numbers 20:27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
- Numbers 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
- Numbers 33:37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
- Numbers 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
- Numbers 33:39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
- Numbers 33:41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
- Numbers 34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
- Numbers 34:8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
- Deuteronomy 32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
