Ho'reb (Heb. Choreb', חוֹרֵב or חֹרֵב, desert; Sept. Χωρήβ or Χώρηβ; occurs Ex 3:1; Ex 17:6; Ex 33:6; Dent. 1, 2, 6, 19; 4:10, 15; 5:2; 9:8; 18:16; 29:1; 1Ki 8:9; 1Ki 19:8; 2Ch 5:10; Ps 104:19; Mal 4:4; Ecclus. 48:7), according to some, a lower part or peak of Mount Sinai, so called at the present day, from which one ascends towards the south the summit of Sinai (Jebel Musa), properly so called (so Gesenius and others after Burckhardt, Travels in Syria, p. 566 sq.); but, according to others, a general name for the whole mountain, of which Sinai was a particular summit (so Hengstenberg, Auth. des Pentat. 2, 396; Robinson, Bibl. Researches, 1, 177, 551). SEE SINAI.
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