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 Dead Sea, and the other is by the Mediterranean Sea at the Northern border of Israel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,285 metres
- Description: mountain mentioned in the Bible
- Also known as: “Jabal an Nabi Harun”, “Jabal an Nabī Hārūn”, and “Jabal Hārūn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery (Ad Deir) and Qasr al-Bint.
Monastery (Ad Deir)
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
Ed-Deir, also spelled el-Deir and ad-Deir/ad-Dayr, is a monumental building carved out of rock in the ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan. The Deir was probably carved in the mid-first century AD. Monastery (Ad Deir) is situated 3½ km northeast of Mount Hor.
Qasr al-Bint
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Qasr al-Bint is a religious temple in the Nabataean city of Petra. It faces the Wadi Musa and is located to the northwest of the Great Temple and the southwest of the Temple of the Winged Lions. Qasr al-Bint is situated 3½ km northeast of Mount Hor.
Great Temple
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Temple at Petra is a grand monumental complex that lies south of the Colonnaded Street at Petra. It covers an area of ~7,560 m2. The complex was probably completed in the early first century AD, under the rule of Nabataean king Aretas IV, as suggested by architectural and sculptural details. Great Temple is situated 3½ km east of Mount Hor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petra and Petra.
Petra
Photo: Faraheed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Petra, the fabled "rose red city, half as old as time", is a well known ancient Nabataean city in the south of Jordan. Due to its breathtaking grandeur and fabulous ruins, Petra was recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.
Petra
Town
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi Musa is a town located in the Ma'an Governorate in southern Jordan. It is the administrative center of the Petra Department and the nearest town to the archaeological site of Petra, being only 3.5 km away. Petra is situated 7 km east of Mount Hor.
Mount Hor
- Categories: biblical place, mountain, and landform
- Location: Ma’an Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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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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Localities in the Area
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