Biblica Analytica
G3735 Greek

ὄρος

oros

mountain

Lexicon Entry

Definition
mountain
Transliteration
oros
Strong's Number
G3735
Occurrences
65

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The Greek word ὄρος (oros) means "mountain." It is the most common term used to describe towering landforms in the Greek language, and it appears 65 times in the Bible. The occurrence of this word in various contexts suggests its significance to the ancient world. Mountains were not just natural formations but also held spiritual and symbolic meaning. The range of usage for ὄρος is broad, encompassing both literal descriptions of mountains and figurative references to heights, elevation, or a sense of grandeur. In some cases, mountains are depicted as obstacles or boundaries, emphasizing the power and majesty of God. The use of ὄρος in the Bible also highlights the connection between the natural world and spiritual realities. Mountains often serve as a backdrop for pivotal events, such as the Transfiguration or Jesus' teaching on the mount. This association implies that the physical landscape can be a vehicle for divine revelation or insight, reflecting the intricate relationship between the human experience and the natural world.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
G3735
Lemma
ὄρος
Transliteration
oros
Definition
mountain
Occurrences
65
Model
groq
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

65 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Matthew 5:1

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Matthew 8:1

When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

Matthew 14:23

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

Matthew 15:29

Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.

Matthew 17:1

After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

Matthew 17:9

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

Matthew 17:20

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Matthew 18:12

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

Matthew 21:1

When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

Matthew 21:21

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

Matthew 24:3

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Matthew 24:16

then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Matthew 26:30

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Mark 11:1

When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

Matthew 28:16

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

Mark 3:13

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

Mark 5:5

Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 5:11

Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

Mark 6:46

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

Mark 9:2

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

Mark 9:9

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Mark 11:23

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

Mark 13:3

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

Mark 13:14

But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

Mark 14:26

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Luke 3:5

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Luke 4:5

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Luke 4:29

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Luke 6:12

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

Luke 19:29

When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

Luke 8:32

Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.

Luke 9:28

About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

Luke 9:37

On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.

Luke 19:37

As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

Luke 21:21

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

Luke 21:37

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

Luke 22:39

He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

Luke 23:30

Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’

John 4:20

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

John 4:21

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

John 6:3

Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

John 6:15

Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

John 8:1

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Acts 1:12

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

Acts 7:30

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

Acts 7:38

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

Galatians 4:24

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.