Mount Hor

Mount Hor is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to two distinct mountains. One borders the land of Edom in the area south of the , and the other is by the Mediterranean Sea at the Northern border of Israel.
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  • Mountain rising to 1,285 metres (4,216 feet)
  • Description: mountain mentioned in the Bible
  • Also known as
    “Jabal an Nabī Hārūn”
    “Jabal Hārūn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monastery (Ad Deir) and Qasr al-Bint.
Berthold Werner, Public domain.
Ed-Deir, also spelled el-Deir and ad-Deir/ad-Dayr… is situated 3½ km northeast of Mount Hor.
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The is a religious temple in the Nabataean city of . is situated 3½ km northeast of Mount Hor.
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The at is a grand monumental… is situated 3½ km east of Mount Hor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petra and Petra.
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, the fabled "rose red city, half as old…
Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi Musa is a town located in the in southern . is situated 7 km east of Mount Hor.

Mount Hor

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Latitude
30.31717° or 30° 19′ 2″ north
Longitude
35.40696° or 35° 24′ 25″ east
Open location code
8G2Q8C84+VQ
Geo­Names ID
247782
Wiki­data ID
Q2915115

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Mount Hor” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل النبي هارون”
  • Arabic: “جبل هور”
  • Belarusian: “Ор”
  • Bengali: “হর পর্বত”
  • Catalan: “mont Or”
  • Chechen: “ХӀарун пайхамаран лам”
  • Chinese: “何珥山”
  • Danish: “Hor”
  • Dutch: “Hor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل النبى هارون”
  • Esperanto: “monto Ĥor/Hor”
  • French: “mont Hor”
  • French: “Mont Hor”
  • Galician: “Monte Hor”
  • Greek: “Όρος Ωρ”
  • Hebrew: “הור ההר”
  • Hebrew: “הר ההר”
  • Hebrew: “קבר אהרון הכהן”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Hor”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Hor”
  • Italian: “monte Cor”
  • Italian: “monte Or”
  • Ladin: “Mount Hor”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hor-fjellet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Horfjellet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hor-fjellet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horfjellet”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Hor”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Hor”
  • Russian: “Ор”
  • Slovenian: “Hor (gora)”
  • Slovenian: “Hor”
  • Spanish: “Monte Hor”
  • Ukrainian: “Гор-гора”
  • Ukrainian: “Гор”
  • Ukrainian: “Ор”
  • Urdu: “جبل ہور”
  • Venetian: “Monte Cor”
  • Yiddish: “הר ההר”
  • Yiddish: “הר–ההר”

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