חֹרֵב
chorev · Horeb
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2722 · appears 17 times in the Bible
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chorev (חֹרֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Horeb”.
The mountain where God appeared to Moses and later gave the Law; another name for Mount Sinai.
How to say it
cho·rev
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Horeb ?
Today: disputed; traditionally Jebel Musa, Sinai, Egypt
The mountain of God in the wilderness; another name for Sinai or a nearby mountain, and its location is not certain.
There God spoke to Moses from the bush that burned without burning up (Exod 3:1-2). Elijah came there fleeing from Jezebel (1 Kgs 19:8).
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Where it appears
- Exodus 3:1
Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock beyond the wilderness and came to the mountain of Elohim, to Horeb.
- Exodus 17:6
Look, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Exodus 33:6
So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb on.
- Deuteronomy 1:2
It is eleven days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 1:6
YHWH our Elohim spoke to us at Horeb, saying, “You have stayed long enough on this mountain.
- Deuteronomy 1:19
We set out from Horeb and went through all that great and fearsome wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorite, as YHWH our Elohim had commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 4:10
The day that you stood before YHWH your Elohim at Horeb, when YHWH said to me, “Assemble the people for me, and I will make them hear my words, which they will learn in order to fear me all the days that they live on the ground, and they will teach their children.”
- Deuteronomy 4:15
So guard your souls carefully, for you did not see any form on the day that YHWH spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,
- Deuteronomy 5:2
YHWH our Elohim made a covenant with us at Horeb.
- Deuteronomy 9:8
At Horeb you made YHWH angry, and YHWH was incensed with you to the point of destroying you.
- Deuteronomy 18:16
according to all that you asked of YHWH your Elohim at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim, and this great fire let me not see anymore, so that I do not die.”
- Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant that YHWH commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.
- 1 Kings 8:9
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 19:8
He got up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to the mountain of Elohim, Horeb.
- 2 Chronicles 5:10
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
- Psalms 106:19
They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.
- Malachi 4:4
Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, which I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel: statutes and rules.