This poetic word describes the distinctive topography of Mount Bashan, a massif characterized by multiple peaks or rounded summits. Psalm 68 uses highly compressed, almost riddle-like language to contrast Bashan's many-peaked grandeur with God's chosen Zion. The imagery suggests either numerous summits across the range or the rounded, humped appearance of the mountain's profile. The term has occasioned much interpretive discussion—some see it as an adjective ('many-peaked'), others as a noun ('peaks'). Either way, it captures the distinctive geography of the Bashan highlands east of the Jordan.