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Hills
        From the Hebrew Gibeah, meaning a curved round hill. But our translators have also employed the same English word for the very different term har, which has a much more extended sense than gibeah, meaning a whole district. For instance, in Ex 24:4 the "hill" is the same which is elsewhere in the same chapter, vs. Ex 24:12,13,18 etc., and book consistently and accurately rendered "mount" and "mountain." The "country of the hills," in De 1:7; Jos 9:1; 10:40; 11:16 is the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim, which is correctly called "the mountain" in the earliest descriptions of Israel, Nu 13:29 and in many subsequent passages.


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Smith, William, Dr "Meaning and Definition for 'hills' in Smiths Bible Dictionary".
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