is used (a) without specification, e.g., Luk 3:5 (distinct from bounos, "a hill," see HILL, No. 3); Joh 4:20; (b) of "the Mount of Transfiguration," Mat 17:1, Mat 17:9, Mar 9:2, Mar 9:9, Luk 9:28, Luk 9:37 (AV, "hill"); 2Pe 1:18; (c) of "Zion," Heb 12:22, Rev 14:1; (d) of "Sinai," Act 7:30, Act 7:38, Gal 1:4-25, Heb 8:5, Heb 12:20; (e) of "the Mount of Olives," Mat 21:1, Mat 24:3, Mar 11:1, Mar 13:3, Luk 19:29, Luk 19:37, Luk 22:39, Joh 8:1, Act 1:12; (f) of "the hill districts as distinct from the lowlands," especially of the hills above the Sea of Galilee, e.g., Mat 5:1, Mat 8:1, Mat 18:12, Mar 5:5; (g) of "the mountains on the east of Jordan" and "those in the land of Ammon" and "the region of Petra," etc., Mat 24:16, Mar 13:14, Luk 21:21; (h) proverbially, "of overcoming difficulties, or accomplishing great things," 1Co 13:2; cp. Mat 17:20, Mat 21:21, Mar 11:23; (i) symbolically, of "a series of the imperial potentates of the Roman dominion, past and future," Rev 17:9. See HILL.
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