2. Another mountain called by the same name (Nu 34'- ') was to be the northern limit of the in- heritance of the tribes of Israel, which was to extend from the shore of the Great Sea (Mediter- ranean) eastward along the border of Mount Hor
• As determined by the aneroid ob^er^-ations of Mr. Reginald Laurence, Monday, 10th December IbO'i (Mount 6Vtr, p. 90).
t Hull's Memoir an the Geology oj Arabia FetroBa, with Mapf and Sections (18S6).
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anto the entering in of Hamath (Syria and the Fiuhanoii). If UOr be an arcliaie form of har, Mt. Hor signifies some conspicuous lieiglit among lesser heights ; and wlien we come to apply this meaning to the region of tlie Lebanon, we cannot remain long in doubt as to the special mount indicated. Among all the mountains on the borders of Syria and Pales- tine, Mount Hermon is pre-eminently the most conspicuous and important, owing to its enormous mass and great elevation, which reaches 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. On this ground we may identify this second Mount Ilor with Hermon, although Porter {Five Years in Dninns- cits', 333), followed by Neubauer (Giog. du Talm. 9), Purrer (ZDI'V viii. 27), and Buhl, prefer Jebel Akkar, a N.E. spur of Lebanon.
LiTKRATCRB. — Mount Hor in Arabia Petrsea has been visited by Burckharflt, I.6on de [.ahorde, the I-Ixpedition sent out by the Committee of tlie Palestine Exploration Kund in 18S:(-S4, by Lartet under the Kxpedition of the Due de Luyneg in 18i>0, by Professor Palmer and Dean Stanley. The prinuipal references to authorities are the same as those uoder the head of Skla or
vstBjL. E. Hull.
HORAM (D-ii.i), king of Gezer, came to the relief of Lnchish when it was besieged by Josliua, but was defeated and slain (Jos 10").
HOREB See SiNAI.
HOREM (di[)). — A city of Naphtali in the moun- tains, Jos 19^ (see Dillm. ad toe). The name means ' consecrated' (cf. Sabiean prop, names oin, S((Din', Halevy, Elitd. Sab. 471, 504). It is prob. to be identilied with the modern IJurah west of Kedesh-naphtali. See SWP vol. i. sh. iv.
C. It. CoN-DER.
HORESH.— In 1 S 23" (cf. "■ '«) David is found 'in Die wilderness of Ziph in a (the) wood' (.v-inj, where 3 ami ."i locale are combined ; LXX iv tj Kail's, iiMjilying a reailing ^y'Tq; ; see Driver, Text of Sain, ad toe). The word Iwresh means ' wooded height' in Is 17", Ezk 31' (if the text in these two pas.sages is correct ; see Oxf. Heb. Lex. s.v.), 2 Ch 27*, and this is probably its meaning in 1 S, although some would make lloresh a proper name, as in RVm (see Stade, Gesch. i. 245). J. A. SELBIE.
HOR-HAGGIDGAD (nn?? in).— A station in the journeyings of the Israelites, mentioned only Nu 333;.a -j-jig Ileb., which means the hole or cavern of Gidgad, indicates the character of the locality, and suggests the land of the Iloiites, or its neighbourhood. The LXX translates r6 iipos ro5745, reading in 'a mountain.' See Beehotu- BENE-JAAKAN, GUDGODAH, and EXODU.S, § iv.
A. T. Chapman. HORI (-I'm).—!. A son of Seir, Gn 3(j-- = l Ch I". As Dillmann remarks, the national name appears here as a clan name. 2. The father of Sbaphat the Simeouite spy, Nu 13'.
HORITES (-in, AV sometimes Ilori, Ilorims).— The predecessors of the Edomites in the country of Seir. They were there as early as the time of Abraham ((Jn 14"). J" destroyed them l)efore the sons of Esau, and gave the latter their country (I)t2'--^). There was, however, such a mingling of the family of Esau and his Horitc (in (in 3(i- read Horite for Ilivite) connexions, that the Horitc name and descent was preserved (Gn 3G, esp. vv.-"- '•"• "'"'). They are not exidicitly said to \ie rephnim, as nre the Emini and the Zamzummim, in Dt 2""--^'-, but from what is there said it is natural to infer thtit they were. Exceiit in l)t 2'-, thev are spoken of as 'the Horite,' using the gentilic noun in the sing., a form of sjieech that is never used of the other giant peoples ; but this can lie accounted for by the fact just mentioned, that, in their mingling
with their conquerors, the H name and descent had been preserved, so that, in the time of Mosea and later, they were properly a people, and not merely a race of subortlinate men, as in tlie case of the Anakira and others.
The name Horite is supposed to mean ' cave- dweller' (see Driver, Deul. p. 3H). On the theorj that the Horites were rephnim, this fact is of interest in its bearing on the character of the rephaite civilization ; but they did not always remain cave-dwellers. See Giaxt.s, Ui'.phaim, and cf. Hommel, AHT2QZi. W. J. Beecher.
HORMAH {nsin, 'Epfii, 'Avdeefw). —After the return of the spies, an attempt to go uji into the S. of Judah was repulsed by the Canajinite and Amalekite (the Amorite according to Dt), who drove the Israelites to Hormah (Nu 14", Dt 1**). In this pas.sage of Nu, Hormah occurs with the def. art., and the rendering of Dt l**, preferred by critics (following LXX, Syr., Vulg.), is 'from Seir to Hormah' (see Driver, ad Inc.).
The Canaanite king of Arati (Nu 21'-') fought against Israel when in the neighbourhood of ilt. Hor, and took some of them prisoners. Thereupon Israel vowed that if the Lord would give them victory, they would place the Canaanite cities under the ban. The place was accordingly named Hormah. According to Jg 1", Judah and Simeon utterly destroyed Zephath and called it Hormah. If the events of Nu 2P happened immediately after the attack of the king of Arad, it would seem that the Israelites conquered at that time some portion of the S. of Judah, and in that case a way would have been open for an advance north- ward. The generally received view seems therefore probable, that Nu 21' describes what took place at a later jicriod, and Jg 1" supplies further details.