Mount
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [1]
MOUNT, MOUNT OF THE LORD
We find the church of Christ continually distinguished by this name in the Old Testament Scripture, and as such we cannot pass it over without some attention to the subject; otherwise the name itself is too familiar to every reader to require explanation. In allusion to the times of the gospel, the Holy Ghost, by his servants the prophets, pointed to the church under these figures.--"It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the tops of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hill,, and all nations shall flow unto it." So proclaimed both Isaiah and Micah, Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1. So Zechariah 8:3. "Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain." And the gospel itself, with all its blessings, is described under the figurative language of a rich feast in the Lord's holy mountain." ( Isaiah 25:6-7.)
The church, in allusion to the same, and looking forward to the coming of Christ, in a high and beautiful, strain of imagery, saith, "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountains of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense." The mountain of myrrh can mean no other than the Lord's house, the church of Jesus. And the expression of myrrh is beautifully adopted to denote Christ's sufferings on the mount, when his sacred body was bruised, and the fragrance of his merits became like the rich perfume of myrrh and frankincense which grew there. And if, as some think, that both these figures of the mountain of myrrh, and hill of frankincense, have peculiar reference to the mount Moriah, where Isaac was intentionally offered up a type of Christ, the figure is striking and just indeed. And what it is to the church at large, such is it to every child of God during the dark shades of night, until the day of the renewed life breaks in upon the soul at conversion.
Oh, that the Lord may graciously enable every one of this description to say with the church, Until the day of grace break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain, the church, there the myrrh of Christ's fragrancy in sufferings will refresh me, until the day of glory and the everlasting light, unmixed with the shades of night, shall break in upon my soul, and I shall then dwell in the everlasting mountain of the house of God for ever! Amen.
Perhaps the reader will be pleased to behold the several most remarkable mountains of Scripture brought into, one point of view. I shall not arrange them according to the order in which they stand in the Bible, but, for the better apprehension and memory, in alphabetical order, together with references to the Scriptures where the account of them may be seen. (NOTE: These are in the next entries)
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v.) A horse.
(2): ( n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; - often with up.
(3): ( v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
(4): ( n.) To attain in value; to amount.
(5): ( v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
(6): ( v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
(7): ( v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; - used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
(8): ( v.) A bank; a fund.
(9): ( v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
(10): ( v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
(11): ( n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
(12): ( v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
(13): ( v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
(14): ( v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
(15): ( n.) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.
King James Dictionary [3]
MOUNT, n. L. mons, literally a heap or an elevation.
1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land. Mount is used for an eminence or elevation of earth, indefinite in highth or size, and may be a hillock, hill or mountain. We apply it to Mount Blanc, in Switzerland, to Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, and it is applied in Scripture to the small hillocks on which sacrifice was offered as well as to Mount Sinai. Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount or heap of stones raised for a witness between him and Laban. Genesis 31 2. A mound a bulwark for offense or defense.
Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jeremiah 6
3. Formerly, a bank or fund of money.
MOUNT,
1. To rise on high to ascend with or without up.
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? Job 39 .
The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
2. To rise to ascend to tower to be built to a great altitude.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jeremiah 51
3. To get on horseback. 4. To leap upon any animal. 5. To amount to rise in value.
Bring then these blessings to a strict account,
Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
MOUNT, To raise aloft to lift on high.
What power is it which mounts my love so high?
1. To ascend to climb to get upon an elevated place as, to mount a throne. 2. To place one's self on horseback as, to mount a horse. 3. To furnish with horses as, to mount a troop. The dragoons were well mounted. 4. To put on or cover with something to embellish with ornaments as, to mount a sword. 5. To carry to be furnished with as, a ship of the line mounts seventy four guns a fort mounts a hundred cannon. 6. To raise and place on a carriage as, to mount a cannon.
To mount guard, to take the station and do the duty of a sentinel.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [4]
Deuteronomy 3:25 11:11 Ezekiel 34:13
East of the Jordan the Anti-Lebanon, stretching south, terminates in the hilly district called Jebel Heish, which reaches down to the Sea of Gennesareth. South of the river Hieromax there is again a succession of hills, which are traversed by wadies running toward the Jordan. These gradually descend to a level at the river Arnon, which was the boundary of the ancient trans-Jordanic territory toward the south.
The composition of the Palestinian hills is limestone, with occasional strata of chalk, and hence the numerous caves, some of large extent, found there.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [5]
MOUNT . An earthwork in connexion with siegecraft ( Jeremiah 6:6 and oft.), also rendered ‘ bank ’ ( 2 Samuel 20:15 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ). In 1Ma 12:36 RV [Note: Revised Version.] has the modern form ‘ mound ,’ which Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] has substituted throughout. See, further, Fortification and Siegecraft, § 6 ( c ).
Smith's Bible Dictionary [6]
Mount. Isaiah 29:3; Jeremiah 6:6; etc. See Siege; Mountain .
