Lexical Definition

‎חֹרֵב‎ Chôrêb (kho-rabe') Horeb ^N:N--L
from ‎חָרַב‎; desolate

Horeb.

• § Horeb = "desert"
• Choreb, a (generic) name for the Sinaitic mountains

1) another name for Mount Sinai from which God gave the law to Moses and the Israelites

Extended Information

name of: סִינַי

• Horeb = "desert"
• Another name of si.nay (‎ס‎ִ‎ינ‎ַ‎י‎ "Sinai" סִינַי)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חֹרֵב‎, ‎חוֺרֵב‎ proper name, of a mountain Horeb (waste, desert) — ᵐ5 Χωρηβ (see Lag^{BN 85}); ‎אֶלהַֿר הָאֱלֹהִים‎ ‎חֹרֵ֑בָה‎ Exod 3:1 (E), compare ‎עַד הַר הָאֱלֹהִים חֹרֵב‎ 1Kgs 19:8 ‎הַצּוּר בְּחֹרֵב‎ Exod 17:6, ‎הַר חוֺרֵב‎ Exod 33:6 (both E); ‎מֵחֹרֵב‎, ‎בְּחֹרֵב‎ Deut 1:2; Deut 1:6; Deut 1:19; Deut 4:10; Deut 4:15; Deut 5:2; Deut 9:8; Deut 18:16; Deut 28:69*; 1Kgs 8:9; 2Chr 5:10; Ps 106:19; Mal 3:22* the sacred mountain of the wilderness, no geographical difference from ‎סִינַי‎ discoverable, but synonym of it in E and (especially) D (except poem Deut 33:2 see ‎סִינַי‎ P).

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