הַר har

Hebrew word for “mountain” · Strong’s H2022 · used 546 times in 485 verses

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Meaning

: mount/hill; hill, mountain, hill country, mount

Senses in the lexicon

• mountain: mount (451)
• mountain: hill country (95)

How it is translated

Glosses given for har in context, with how often each is used:

• mountain 265
• mountains 155
• hill country 96
• hill country towards 10
• hill 8
• mountain towards 4
• mount 2
• like the mountain 2
• hills 2
• over the mountain 1
• among the mountains 1

Where it is used

Also in 23 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 19 (11), Deuteronomy 1 (9), Numbers 33 (8), Exodus 24 (7), Psalms 104 (6), Ezekiel 35 (6), Obadiah 1 (6), Exodus 34 (5), Numbers 20 (5), Deuteronomy 10 (5)

Forms

• הר 118
• בהר 111
• ההר 91
• הרים 57
• ההרים 53
• הרי 27
• מהר 25
• ההרה 13
• והר 8
• בהרים 8

Words used with it

Words that share verses with har more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• גִּבְעָה givah “hill” 38
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 62
• אֶפְרַיִם ephrayim “Ephraim” 34
• צִיּוֹן tsiyyon “Zion” 33
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 34
• עַד ad “till” 45
• סִינַי sinay “Sinai” 20
• שֵׂעִיר seir “Seir” 20
• שָׁם sham “there” 35
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 29
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 33
• מִן־ min “from” 36

Key verses

The verses using har that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 32:22 — For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the…
• Psalms 2:6 — Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Psalms 48:1 — [A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.] Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
• Psalms 125:1 — [A Song of degrees.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
• Isaiah 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above…
• Isaiah 5:25 — Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did…
• Isaiah 10:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart…
• Isaiah 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the…
• Isaiah 44:23 — Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for…
• Isaiah 55:12 — For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the…
• Amos 4:1 — Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and…
• Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.