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horeb
/ˈhɔːɹɛb/
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What does horeb mean?
proper noun
- The mountain where the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by Yahweh, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
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It was Mount Horeb, that Sinai at the top of which Moses saw God face to face.
It had brought upon her a stroke resulting, as did that of Moses in Horeb, in a liquid stream—here a stream of tears.
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Moses was permitted a mitigated view of the person of the Hebrew God on Mount Horeb; and Semele, who insisted upon seeing Zeus in the glories that were sacred to Juno, was utterly consumed.
This species is to be found at the present day upon Mount Horeb, and the natives assured me that, when the grapes are ripe, it is necessary to protect them by watchers armed with guns, to scare the bears during night.
He supposes that God had previously concealed the tables of stone in Mount Horeb, and that Moses, "when he kept Jethro's sheep thereabout, had free access to these tables, and perused them at discretion, though he was not permitted to carry them down with him."