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HOR, MOUNT (nirt)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOR, See also:MOUNT (nirt) , the See also:scene in the See also:Bible of See also:Aaron's See also:death, situated " in the edge of the See also:land of See also:Edom " (Num. xxxiii. 37). Since the See also:time of See also:Josephus it has been identified with the See also:Jebel Nebi Ijarun (" See also:Mountain of the See also:Prophet Aaron "), a twin-peaked mountain 4780 ft. above the See also:sea-level (6072 ft. above the Dead Sea) in the Edomite Mountains on the See also:east See also:side of the See also:Jordan-Arabah valley. On the See also:summit is a See also:shrine said to See also:cover the See also:grave of Aaron. Some See also:modern investigators dissent from this See also:identification: H. See also:Clay See also:Trumbull prefers the Jebel Madara, a See also:peak See also:north-See also:west of `See also:Ain Kadis. Another Mount Hor is mentioned in Num. xxxiv. 7, 8, as on the See also:northern boundary of the prospective conquests of the Israelites. It is perhaps to be identified with See also:Hermon. It has been doubtfully suggested that for Floc we should here read Hadrach, the name of a northern See also:country near See also:Damascus, mentioned only once in the Bible (Zech. ix. I). (R.

A. S.

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