Hill

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Hebrew gibeah, "a carved, rounded hill"; frequent in the Holy Land. Har, mistranslated "hill;" it means a" mountain range or district" (Exo_24:4; Exo_24:12-13; Exo_24:18; Num_14:40; Num_14:44-45). The "hill" in Jos_15:9, compare 8, is the Mount of Olives. "The hills," Deu_1:7; Jos_9:1, is the mountain district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim (Num_13:29). The "holy hill," "hill of Jehovah," etc., Psa_3:4; Psa_24:3, is mount Zion. Carmel should be called the mount, not "a hill" (2Ki_1:9; 2Ki_4:27; compare 1Ki_18:19). Maleh should be "ascent," not "hill" (1Sa_9:11, margin). In Luk_9:28; Luk_9:37, "the hill" (oros) is the mountain of transfiguration. In Luk_1:39 "the hill country" ought to be translated "the mountain country" of Judah.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Psa_2:6 (a) This is a clear reference to the Mount of Olives on which the Lord JESUS will stand when He returns to this earth to set up His kingdom. (See also Zec_14:4).

Psa_3:4 (a) This word is used as a type of the high and holy place where GOD sits upon His throne in Heaven.

Psa_24:3 (b) By this we understand the action of that one who seeks to come into GOD's presence in prayer and worship. He must be cleansed by the precious Blood, and must be washed by the Word of GOD.

Isa_40:4 (c) This probably refers to real hills which prevent so much of this earth from being usable and tillable. Also may be a type of the difficulties, obstructions and hindrances in the Christian pathway which the Lord removes as it pleases Him. (See also Luk_3:5).

Isa_40:12 (c) Chemical elements are combined by weight rather than by volume. All mountains and hills are made of many chemical elements which have been put into combinations by the Creator, our Lord. GOD must know the weight of each mountain and hill in order that these may be balanced against the weight of the water in the oceans. A pint of water weighs a pound, so our Lord measures the waters in order that He may know their weight. The earth is a ball which rotates upon its axis and therefore it must be balanced, or else it would fly to pieces. GOD therefore does measure the waters, weigh the hills, and weigh the mountains so that the weight would be equally distributed throughout every part of the earth. The Lord is telling us this great fact so that we may reverence Him, worship Him, and rejoice in the GOD who can do it, and does do it for our blessing. He is perhaps teaching us that He knows all the troubles, sorrows, disappointments and victories of our lives, and knows how to balance them perfectly to give us a wonderful experience of living.

Psa_68:16 (b) Here is a picture of the joy and gladness which fills the hearts of the rulers of. Israel when GOD rules and reigns in Jerusalem.

Psa_114:6 (b) We probably are to learn from this that difficulties and problems, large and small, are no problem to GOD. He removes all hindrances easily.

Mat_5:14 (b) This is a type of the blessed influence a Christian exerts when he takes an out and out stand for CHRIST so that the world can see and recognize his faith.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Hill
is the rendering of the following original words in the Auth. Vers. of the Bible. SEE PALESTINE.
1. Gib'ah,', גַּבְעָה, from a root akin to גָּבִע, to be high, which seems to have the force of curvature or humpishness. A word involving this idea is peculiarly applicable to the rounded hills of Palestine, and from it are derived, as has been pointed out under GIBEAH, the names of several places situated on hills. Our translators have been consistent in rendering gib'ah by “hill:” in four passages only qualifying it as “little hill,” doubtless for the more complete antithesis to “mountain” (Psa_65:12; Psa_72:3; Psa_114:4; Psa_114:6). SEE TOPOGRAPHICAL TERMS.
2. But they have also employed the same English word for the very different term bar, הִר, which has a much more extended sense than gib'ah, meaning a whole district rather than an individual eminence, and to which our word “mountain” answers with tolerable accuracy. This exchange is always undesirable, but it sometimes occurs so as to confuse the meaning of a passage where it is desirable that the topography should be unmistakable. For instance, in Eze_24:4, the “hill” is the same which is elsewhere in the same chapter (Eze_24:12-13; Eze_24:18, etc.) and book consistently and accurately rendered “mount” and “mountain.” In Num_14:44-45, the “hill” is the “mountain” of Num_14:40, as also in Deu_1:41; Deu_1:43, compared with Deu_1:24; Deu_1:44. In Jos_15:9, the allusion is to the Mount of Olives, correctly called “mountain” in the preceding verse; and so also in 2Sa_16:13. The country of the “hills,” in Deu_1:7; Jos_9:1; Jos_10:40; Jos_11:16, is the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which is correctly called “the mountain” in the earliest descriptions of Palestine (Num_13:29), and in many subsequent passages. The “holy hill” (Psa_3:4), the “hill of Jehovah” (Psa_24:3), the “hill of God” (Psa_68:15). are nothing else than “Mount Zion.” In 2Ki_1:9; 2Ki_4:27, the use of the word “hill” obscures the allusion to Carmel, which in other passages of the life of the prophet (e.g. 1Ki_18:19; 2Ki_4:25) has the term “mount” correctly attached to it. Other places in the historical books in which the same substitution weakens the force of the narrative are as follows: Gen_7:19; Deu_8:7; Jos_13:6; Jos_18:13-14; Jdg_16:3; 1Sa_23:14; 1Sa_25:20; 1Sa_26:13; 2Sa_13:34; 1Ki_20:23; 1Ki_20:28; 1Ki_22:17, etc. SEE MOUNTAIN.
3. On one occasion the word ma'aleh', מִעֲלֶה, is rendered “hill,” viz. 1Sa_9:11, where it would be better to employ “ascent,” or some similar term. SEE MAALEH.
4. In the N.T. the word “hill” is employed to render the Greek word βουνός; but on one occasion it is used for ὄρος, elsewhere “mountain,” so as to obscure the connection between the two parts of the same narrative. The “hill” from which Jesus was coming down in Luk_9:36, is the same as “the mountain” into which he had gone for his transfiguration the day before (comp. Luk_9:28). In Mat_5:14, and Luk_4:29, ὄρος is also rendered “hill,” but not with the inconvenience just noticed. In Luk_1:39, the “hill country” (ἡ ὀρεινή) is the same “mountain of Judah” to which frequent reference is made in the Old Testament. SEE JUDAH, TRIBE OF.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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