Strong's Hebrew · H2022

הַר

har · har

hill (country), mount(-ain), [idiom] promotion.

Definition

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

Derivation

a shortened form of H2042 (הָרָר);

Appears 547 times in Scripture

Genesis 10:30

Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

Genesis 19:30

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.

Genesis 12:8

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 19:19

Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Genesis 19:17

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

Genesis 7:19

Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

Genesis 7:20

The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Genesis 8:5

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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