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HebrewH4179Noun

מֹרִיָּה

mo.riy.yah

2Occurrences
H4179Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Morijah, a hill in Palestine

or מֹרִיָּה; from H7200 (רָאָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); seen of Jah;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Moriah = "chosen by Jehovah" the place where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice the mount on the eastern edge of Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מֹרִיָּה appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
1
Genesis
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 3:1BSB

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Genesis 22:2BSB

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.