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<p> '''1.''' The mount in which Aaron died (&nbsp;Numbers 20:22-23; &nbsp;Numbers 20:25-28). An archaic form of har , "mountain." The only instance in which the proper name comes first, "Hor the mountain," the mount upon the mountain. It "rises like a huge castellated building from a lower base" (Stanley, [[Sinai]] and Palestine, 86). Now Jebel Harun" by the coast (or 'edge') of the land of Edom" (&nbsp;Numbers 33:37-38). On the E. side of the Arabah, close to Petra. The white chalk summit rises on a dark red sandstone bore rock, 5,300 feet above the Mediterranean. On the northernmost of its two summits is shown a square building with dome, called the tomb of Aaron. A flight of steps cut in the rock leads up a precipice to it. The roof is decorated with ostrich shells and such like ornaments. </p> <p> It is an ordinary Moslem weh; over the door is an inscription stating that the building was restored by Es Shimani, son of [[Mohammed]] Calain, sultan of Egypt, by his father's orders, in the year 739 of the Hegira; square almost, 28 ft. by 33 ft., having two chambers one above the other. The host encamped in the Arabah below at [[Moseroth]] (&nbsp;Numbers 33:30), or [[Mosera]] (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 10:6). (See [[Aaron]] .) His death resembled Moses' in being on a mountain, but differed from it in being in the presence of Moses and [[Eleazar]] on the mount to which they ascended "in the sight of all the congregation." Moses' death was in solitude, but with Gilead's heights, and Benjamin's hills, and the rich [[Jordan]] valley in view; whereas Aaron's last looks rested on rugged Edom, and chalky mount Seir, and the red sandstone rocks round Petra, and the dreary Arabah. </p> <p> '''2.''' The name Hor is applied to the whole western crest of Lebanon, 80 miles long from the E. of [[Sidon]] to the entering in of [[Hamath]] (Kalat el Husn close to Hums, i.e. ancient Hamath); the northern boundary appointed to Israel (&nbsp;Numbers 34:8). </p>

<p> [[Hor]] (''Hôr'' ), [[Mountain]] , '''Mount''' . 1. The mountain on which Aaron died. &nbsp;Numbers 20:25-27; &nbsp;Numbers 33:37. It was on the" boundary line," or "at the edge" of the land of Edom. It was the halting-place of the people next after Kadesh, &nbsp;Numbers 20:22; &nbsp;Numbers 33:37, and they quitted it for Zalmonah, &nbsp;Numbers 33:41, in the road to the Red sea. &nbsp;Numbers 21:4. It was during the encampment at Kadesh that Aaron died. Mount Hor is on the western side of the great valley of the Arabah, the highest and most conspicuous of the whole range of the sandstone mountains of Edom, having close beneath it on its eastern side the strange city of Petra. It is now called Jebel Nebi-Harûn, "the mountain of the prophet Aaron." Its height is 4800 feet above the Mediterranean; or about 1700 feet above the town of Petra, and more than 6000 above the Dead sea. The mountain is marked far and near by its double top, which rises like a huge castellated building from a lower base and is now surmounted by a circular dome of the tomb of Aaron, a distinct white spot on the dark red surface of the mountain. The chief interest of Mount Hor consists in the prospect from its summit, the last view of Aaron—that view which was to him what Pisgah was to Moses. 2. A mountain, distinct from, the preceding, named in &nbsp;Numbers 34:7-8, only, as one of the marks of the northern boundary of the land which the children of Israel were to conquer. This Mount Hor is the great chain of Lebanon itself. </p>

<li> One of the marks of the northern boundary of [[Palestine]] (&nbsp; Numbers 34:7,8 ). Nowhere else mentioned. Perhaps it is one of the peaks of Lebanon. <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Hor'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/h/hor.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>