Word study

Peak

5 Hebrew words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: peaks, peak. 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.

At a glance

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

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • יְרֵכָה yerêkâhflank, sidetranslated this way 3 times of its 28 uses · Strong’s H3411Noun  ·  Translated: rear 4, ends 3, far 3, two back 2

    2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

    Psalm 48:2 Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

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  • גַּבְנֹן gabnônpeak, rounded summittranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H1386Noun  ·  Translated: peaks 1, many peaks 1

    Psalm 68:15 A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.

    Psalm 68:16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

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  • חֶרְמוֹנִים ChermônîmHermons, its peakstranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H2769Noun  ·  Translated: peaks of hermon 1

    Psalm 42:6 O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon — even from Mount Mizar.

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  • תּוֹעָפָה tôâphâheminencetranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s H8443Noun  ·  Translated: strength 2, finest 1, peaks 1

    Psalm 95:4 In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

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  • רֹאשׁ rôshheadtranslated this way 1 time of its 570 uses · Strong’s H7218Noun  ·  Translated: head 200, heads 113, chief 31, top 29Full study and all 530 verses →
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.