Bible Names

Hor: meaning of the name

Hor means “who conceives, or shows; a hill.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Hor in Hebrew and Greek

הֹר H2023

Hôr (hore) — Hor, the name of a peak in Idumaea and of one in Syria

another form of H2022 (הַר); mountain;

Hor in Scripture

“Hor” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 20:22

    And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

  • Numbers 20:23

    And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,

  • Numbers 20:25

    Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:

  • Numbers 20:27

    And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

  • Numbers 21:4

    And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

  • Numbers 33:32

    And they removed from Bene–jaakan, and encamped at Hor–hagidgad.

  • Numbers 33:33

    And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.

  • Numbers 33:37

    And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.