Word study

Mount

6 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: mount, mounted, mounts. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “mount” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • הַר harmountain, hill, hill-countrytranslated this way 126 times of its 530 uses · Strong’s H2022Noun  ·  Translated: mountains 140, mountain 130, Mount 124, hill country 82

    Exodus 19:11 and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

    Leviticus 7:38 which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

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  • רָכַב râkabmount and ride, ridetranslated this way 6 times of its 77 uses · Strong’s H7392Verb  ·  Translated: riding 12, ride 9, mounted 6, rider 5

    Genesis 24:61 Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

    2 Samuel 22:11 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

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  • עָלָה âlâhgo up, ascend, climbtranslated this way 5 times of its 873 uses · Strong’s H5927Verb  ·  Translated: go 118, went 107, brought 56, come 42Full study and all 807 verses →
  • מִלֻּא millusetting, installationtranslated this way 3 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H4394Noun  ·  Translated: ordination 8, mounted 2, ordination offering 2, mount 1

    Exodus 25:7 and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

    Exodus 35:9 and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

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  • מָלֵא mâlêbe full, filltranslated this way 2 times of its 242 uses · Strong’s H4390Verb  ·  Translated: filled 66, full 34, fill 31, complete 8

    Exodus 28:17 And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;

    Exodus 39:10 And they mounted on it four rows of gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;

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  • שׂוּם sûmput, place, settranslated this way 2 times of its 560 uses · Strong’s H7760Verb  ·  Translated: put 84, set 71, make 45, made 39

    Numbers 21:8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

    Numbers 21:9 So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • ὄρος órosa mountaintranslated this way 18 times of its 63 uses · Strong’s G3735Noun  ·  Translated: mountain 30, Mount 18, mountains 10, hill 2

    Matthew 21:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent out two disciples,

    Mark 11:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent out two of His disciples

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.