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of the remonstrances of the ministers. He was arrested for this conduct in 1G99, and became partially insane. He recovered, however, towards the close of the year 1700, and, by the interposition of his friends, he was granted a pension in 1708, which was continued until his death, August 5, 1729. Horch was also a Millenari- an ; he likewise demanded a second and more complete reformation of the Church, advocated celibacy, though he did not think the married life sinful, and is said to have been a member of the Philadelphia Society (q. v.), founded in 1696 by Jane Leade. He wrote a num- ber of works, of which a complete list is given by Jocher (Ge/./-ex., Adelung's Supplem.ii, 2138 sq.), and of which the Mystische u. Pi-opketische Bibel (Marb. 1712, 4to) is especially celebrated as the forerunner of the Berleburg Bible (q. v.). See Haas (G.Fr. L.), Lebensbesch re ib.d. Dr.IIorch (Cassel, 1769, 8vo) ; Gobel {M.^GescMchte d. chrislliche Lebens in d. rhein. westph.ev. Kirche (Coblenz, 1852 ), ii, 741-51 ; Herzog, Real-Encyklojyddie, vi, 262 sq. ; Fuhrmann, Hamlworterbuch d. Kirchengesch. ii, 349 sq. ; Theol. Univ. Lex. ii, 369, (J. H. W.)
Ho'reb (Heb. Choreb', i'liPI or a'nH, desert; Sept. Xojpi'ifi or Xojpi](3 ; occurs Exod. iii, 1 ; xvii, 6 ; xxxiii, 6; Dent, i, 2, 6, 19; iv, 10, 15; v, 2; ix, 8; xviii, 16; xxix, 1 ; 1 Kings viii, 9 ; xix, 8 ; 2 Chron. v, 10 ; Psa. cvi, 19 ; Mai. iv, 4 ; Ecclus. xlviii, 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. ii, 396; Kobinson, Bibl. Researches, i, 177, 551). See Sinai.
Horebites, a sect of the Hussites, who, upon the death of Ziska, when the}' had retired from Bohemia, chose Bedricus of Bohemia as their leader. They called themselves Horebites because they had given the name of Horeb to a mountain to which they had retired. — Schriic-kh, Kirchengesch. xxxiv, 688. See Hussites.
Ho'rem (Heb. Chorem', fi'^n, consecrated {but for- tress according to Furst] ; Sept. 'Qpajx [but most texts blend with preceding name into Meya\aapii.i or Mny- SaXirjdjpc'ijj.'], Vulg. Horeiii), one of the " fenced cities" of Napiitali, mentioned between Migdal-el and Beth- Anath (Josh, xix, 38). Schwarz (Palest, p. 184) con- founds it with the place preceding, and seeks to identify both in the modern village MedJ el-Kerum, eight miles east of Akka ; but this does not lie within the ancient limits of Naphtali (Keil, ad loc). Van de Velde (i, 178, 0 ; Memoir, p. 322) suggests Ilurah as the site of Ho- rem. It is an ancient site, in the centre of the country, half way between the Ras en-Nakhura and the lake Merom, on a tell at the southern end of the wady el-Ain, one of the natural features of the country. It is also in favor of this identification that Hurah is near Yarun, probably the representative of the ancient luox, named with Horem. (Compare Seetzeh, Reisen dui-ch Syrien, Berlin, 1854-9, ii, 130.)
Hor-hagid'gad (Hebrew Chor hag-Gidgad' , ^H 'lS*7iiri, hole of the Gidgad; Sept. tipof ra^ya(?,Vulg. mons Gadgad, both apparently reading or misunderstanding "iri or in for ^h), the thirty-third station of the Israel- ites between Bene- Jaakan and Jotbathah (Numb, xxxiii, 32, 33) ; evidently the same with their forty-first sta- tion GuDGODAii, between the same places iu the oppo- site direction, and not far from IMount Hor (Dent, x, G, 7). Winer (Realwort. s. v. Horgidgad) assents to the possibility of the identity of this name with that of wady (ihudhaghid, in the eastern part of the desert et- Tih ( Pdbinson's Researches, iii, App. 210, b), although the names are spelt and signify differently (this valley would be in Hebrew characters jJ> X^i'), but objects to the identification thus proposed by Ewald (Jsral. Gesch.
ii, 207) on the ground that ^in can hardly mean a wide vallej'. This difficulty, however, does not weigh much, since the wady may only be the representative of the name anciently attached to some spot in the vicinity, more properly called a chasm ; and even this spot is suf- ficiently a gully to form a receptacle for the loose sand washed down by the fresh?ts, which may naturally have partly fiUed it up in the course of ages. With this identification Rabbi Schwarz likewise agrees (Palest, p. 213). See Exode. The name Gidgad or Gndgod, ac- cording to Gesenius, is from an Ethiopic reduplicated root, signifying to reverberate, as thunder; but, accord- ing to Furst, signifies a cleft, from 1^5 or Tia, to incise. See GuDGODAH.
Ho'ri (Heb. Chori', ^yr\ or '^'lin, prob. a "troglo- dyte," or dweller in a cave, ""ih, otherwise an anger; Sept. Xoppol, Olipi, and Xoppi ; Yulg. Ilori and Huri), the name of two men.
1. A son of Lotan and grandson of Seir, of the abo- riginal inhabitants of Iduma3a (Gen. xxxvi, 2 ; 1 Chron. i, 39). B.C. cir. 1964.
2. The father of Shaphat, which latter was the com- missioner of the tribe of Simeon sent by IMoses to ex- plore the land of Canaan (Numb, xiii, 5). B.C. ante 1657.