1. Horeb (Mount Horeb) — The proper noun חֹרֵב / חוֹרֵב designating Mount Horeb, the mountain of God in the wilderness, identified in Deuteronomic tradition with Sinai. The name means 'waste, desert' (from חרב 'to be dry'). Used with various prepositions: בְּחֹרֵב 'in/at Horeb' (Exod 17:6; Deut 1:6, 4:10, 4:15, 5:2, 9:8, 18:16, 29:1; 1 Kgs 8:9; 2 Chr 5:10; Ps 106:19; Mal 4:4), מֵחֹרֵב 'from Horeb' (Deut 1:2, 1:19), and the directional חֹרֵבָה 'Horeb-ward' (Exod 3:1), as well as absolute standalone uses (Exod 33:6; 1 Kgs 19:8). These are all inflectional variants of one proper noun, not different senses. Multilingual glosses uniformly render it as a place name: Arabic حُورِيبَ, German Horeb/Horev, Korean 호렙/호렛, Spanish Horeb/Jorev, Hindi होरेब, French Horeb. 17×
AR["حوريب","حوريبَ","حُورِيبَ","في-حوريب","في-حوريبَ","فِي-حُورِيبَ","مِن-حوريبَ","وَفِي-حُورِيبَ"]·ben["এবং-হোরেবে","হোরেব-থেকে","হোরেব।","হোরেবে","হোরেবে-","হোরেবের"]·DE["Horeb","Horeb-ward","Horev","bei-Chorev","bei-Horeb","in-Horeb","mit-dem-Schwert","und-bei-Horeb","von-Horeb"]·EN["Horeb","Horeb-ward","Horev","and-at-Horeb","at-Chorev","at-Horeb","from-Horeb","in-Horeb"]·FR["Horeb","Horeb-garde","Horev","[בחרב]","dans-Horeb","dans-épée","de-Horeb","et-à-Horeb","par-l'épée","à-Horeb"]·heb["ב-חורב","ב-חרב","ו-ב-חורב","חורב","חורבה","מ-חורב"]·HI["-होरेब-में","-होरेब-से","और-होरेब-में","में-होरेब","होरēब","होरेब","होरेब-में","होरेब-में।"]·ID["Dan-di-Horeb","Horeb","dari-Horeb","di-Horeb"]·IT["Horev","Oreb","Oreb-ward","[בחרב]","a-Oreb","con-la-spada","da-Oreb","e-a-Oreb","in-Oreb"]·jav["Horèb","Horèb.","Lan-wonten-ing-Horéb","ing-Horeb","ing-Horèb","ing-Horéb","saking-Horéb","wonten-ing-Horeb","wonten-ing-Horéb"]·KO["-에서-호렙","그리고-호렙에서","에-호렑","에-호렙","에-호렙에서","에-호렛","호렑-에서","호렙-에서","호렙으로","호렛"]·PT["Chorev","Chorev-a","E-em-Horebe","de-Horebe","em-Chorev","em-Chorev;","em-Horeb","em-Horebe","em-Horev"]·RU["И-в-Хореве","Хорев","Хореву","Хорив","в-Хореве","в-Хориве","на-Хореве","от-Хорева"]·ES["Horeb","Joreb","Jorev","Y-en-Horeb","de-Horeb","desde-Horeb","en-Horeb","en-Jorev"]·SW["Horebu","Na-katika-Horebu","ambapo","katika-Horebu","kumkamata","kutoka-Horebu"]·TR["-Horev'de","Horeb'de","Horeb'in","Horev","Horev'de","Horev'de-","Horev'den-","Horev'e","ve-Horev'de"]·urd["-حوریب-میں","اور-حورب-میں","حورب","حورب-میں","حوریب","حوریب-سے","حوریب-میں","حوریب-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חֹרֵב, חוֹרֵב n.pr.mont. Horeb (waste, desert)—𝔊 Χωρηβ (v. LagBN 85); אֶל־הַר הָאֱלֹהִים חֹרֵ֑בָה Ex 3:1 (E), cf. עַד הַר הָאֱלֹהִים חֹרֵב 1 K 19:8; הַצּוּר בִּחֹרֵב Ex 17:6, הַר חוֹרֵב 33:6 (both E); מֵחֹרֵב, בְּחֹרֵב Dt 1:2, 6, 19; 4:10, 15; 5:2; 9:8; 18:16; 28:69; 1 K 8:9 2 Ch 5:10 ψ 106:19 Mal 3:22; the sacred mountain of the wilderness, no geograph. diff. from סִינַי discoverable, but synonym of it in E and (especially) D (except poem Dt 33:2; vid. סִינַי P).