Hill: 1. Heb. gib'eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to
Palestine
(Psalms 65:12; 72:3; 114:4,6)2. Heb. har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual
eminence
(Exodus 24:4,12,13,18; Numbers 14:40,44,45) In
(Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 9:1)
(Joshua 10:40; 11:16) it denotes the elevated district of Judah,
Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the
Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
3. Heb. ma'aleh in
(1 Samuel 9:11) Authorized Version "hill" is correctly
rendered in the Revised Version "ascent."
4. In
(Luke 9:37) the "hill" is the Mount of Transfiguration.
