Bible Location
Meaning: desert; solitude; destruction · 16 cross references · Modern-day map available
Horeb is the wider mountain region associated with Sinai and the covenant events of the Exodus. It is important because it is one of the Bible's key names for the wilderness mountain setting where Moses met God and where Israel received covenant law and instruction. First appears in Exod 3:1.1
Place meaning
desert; solitude; destruction
Coordinates
28.59, 33.92
First appears
Exod 3:1
AI summary: Horeb is closely related to Sinai and sometimes functions as the broader mountain-range name surrounding the central mountain of revelation. It is linked with Moses' call, the provision of water in the wilderness, the covenant crisis around the golden calf, and later prophetic memory. Because of that, Horeb becomes one of the Bible's signature wilderness names for divine encounter and covenant formation. The cross references present Horeb as a foundational mountain region of revelation, obedience, and renewal.1
Place meaning
desert; solitude; destruction
Latitude
28.59
Longitude
33.92
Bible references
16
Desert or mountain of the dried-up ground, a general name for the whole mountain range of which Sinai was one of the summits (Ex. 3:1; 17:6; 33:6; Ps. 106:19, etc.). The modern name of the whole range is Jebel Musa. It is a huge mountain block, about 2 miles long by about 1 in breadth, with a very spacious plain at its north-east end, called the Er Rahah, in which the Israelites encamped for nearly a whole year. (See SINAI.) 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.