H4179 H4179
Moriah (proper noun); the mountain region where Abraham offered Isaac and Solomon built the temple
Moriah appears as 'the land of Moriah' in Genesis 22:2, where God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and as 'Mount Moriah' in 2 Chronicles 3:1, identified as the site where Solomon built the temple. Jewish and Christian tradition have long identified these as the same location—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, the Septuagint's 'high land' for Genesis and textual variations suggest ancient interpretive challenges. The name's etymology is uncertain, though connections to 'seeing' (from the root ראה) have been proposed based on Genesis 22:14.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The sacred mountain region where both the binding of Isaac and the Jerusalem temple were located, according to biblical tradition. Genesis calls it a 'land' while Chronicles calls it a 'mount,' but 2 Chronicles explicitly connects the two. All languages transliterate (Moriah, Moriyá, Morija), preserving this as a sacred place-name. The Septuagint's 'high land' interpretation and Josephus's identification reflect early attempts to locate or explain this theologically significant site. 2×
AR["الْمُورِيَّا"]·ben["-মোরিয়ার", "মোরিয়ার"]·DE["Morija", "[המוריה]"]·EN["the-Moriah", "the-Moriyyah"]·FR["[המוריה]", "le-Morija"]·heb["ה-מוריה", "ה-מריה"]·HI["मोरिया", "मोरिय्या"]·ID["Moria"]·IT["[המוריה]", "il-Moriah"]·jav["Moria", "Moriya"]·KO["그-모리아", "그-모리아의"]·PT["o-Moriyah", "o-Moriyyah"]·RU["Мориа", "Мория"]·ES["Moriá", "el-Moriyyah"]·SW["Moria", "ya-Moria"]·TR["Moriya'nın"]·urd["-موریاہ", "موریاہ-کے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† מֹרִיָּה, מוֹרִיָּה n.pr.loc. אֶרֶץ הַמּ׳ Gn 22:2 (E), place for sacrificing Isaac, 𝔊 τ. γῆν τ. ὑψηλήν (text dub., v. Di); הַר הַמּוֹ׳ 2 Ch 3:1 site of temple, 𝔊 Αμορ(ε)ια (cf. JosAnt. i, 13, 1 f.)