ὄρος

ὄρος — óros

ὄρος, ὄρους, τό (ὈΡΩ, ὄρνυμι (i. e. a rising; see orthroi])) (from Homer down), the Sept. for הַר, a mountain: Mat 5:14; Luk 3:5; Rev 6:14, and often; τό ὄρος, the mountain nearest the place spoken of, the mountain near by (but see ὁ, II. 1 b.), Mat 5:1; Mar 3:13; Luk 9:28; Joh 6:3; Joh 6:15; plural ὄρη, Mat 18:12; Mat 24:16; Mar 5:5; Rev 6:16, etc.; genitive plural ὀρέων (on this uncontracted form, used also in Attic, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 49 note 3; Winers Grammar, § 9, 2 c.; (Buttmann, 14 (13); Dindorf in Fleckeisen's Jahrb. for 1869, p. 83)), Rev 6:15; ὄρη μεθιστάνειν a proverb. phrase, used also by rabbinical writings, to remove mountains, i. e. to accomplish most difficult, stupendous, incredible things: 1Co 13:2, cf. Mat 17:20; Mat 21:21; Mar 11:23.