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מוֹרֶה

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Moreh

§ Moreh = "teacher" the oak tree at Shechem where Abram stopped when he first entered Canaan; close to the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

II. מוֺרֶה noun masculineIsa 30:20 teacher; — absolute in אֵלוֺן מוֺרֶה Gen 12:6 (J) = אֵלוֺנֵי מֹרֶה Deut 11:30 (⅏ ᵐ5 אֵלוֺן), the teacher's terebinth (see אֵלוֺן) near Shechem; compare גִּבְעַת הַמּוֺרֶה Judg 7:1 teacher's hill near the plain of Jezreel, probably Little Hermon, Nebî Daµî BdPal 244; the terebinth being a holy tree from which divine teaching was given, and the hill of the teacher the seat of a holy place whence divine teaching was given; see also (of God) Job 36:22 here belong probably likewise מוֺרָ֑י Prov 5:13, and מוֺרֶיךָ Isa 30:20 (twice in verse).


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