הַר
har · har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a shortened form of H2042 (הָרָר);
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hill (country), mount(-ain), [idiom] promotion.
Letters
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to reveal, behold › the head, the highest
To reveal, behold of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of הַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
546 occurrences · 546 OT · 0 NT · 146 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in mount34 · 11%
- mountain28 · 9%
- of the mountains27 · 9%
- upon the mountains24 · 8%
- the mountains17 · 6%
- from mount13 · 4%
- in the mount13 · 4%
- of mount12 · 4%
- in the mountains12 · 4%
- upon mount11 · 4%
- in the mountain10 · 3%
- unto mount10 · 3%
- mount9 · 3%
- to mount9 · 3%
- of the mount8 · 3%
- the mount8 · 3%
- of the mountain8 · 3%
- into the mount7 · 2%
- from the mount7 · 2%
- to the mountain7 · 2%
- and the mountains7 · 2%
- mountains7 · 2%
- hill6 · 2%
- of the hill6 · 2%
- and the mountain6 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.