ὀρεινή
hill country
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀρεινή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 21 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 14:10 ὀρεινή Now the salt valley consists of slime-pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrha, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.
- Numbers 13:29 ὀρεινή Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach.
- Deuteronomy 2:37 ὀρεινή Only we did not draw near to the children of Amman, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jaboc, and the cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.
- Deuteronomy 11:11 ὀρεινή but the land into which you go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.
- Joshua 2:16 ὀρεινή and she said to them, Depart into the hill-country, lest the pursuers meet you, and you⌃ shall be hidden there three days until your pursuers return from after you, and afterwards you⌃ shall depart on your way.
- Joshua 2:22 ὀρεινή And they came to the hill-country, and remained there three days; and the pursuers searched all the roads, and found them not.
- Joshua 9:1 ὀρεινή And when the kings of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan, who were in the mountain country, and in the plain, and in all the coast of the great sea, and those who were near Antilibanus, and the Chettites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Amorites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, heard of it,
- Joshua 10:6 ὀρεινή And the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to Joshua into the camp to Galgala, saying, Slack not your hands from your servants: come up quickly to us, and help us, and rescue us; for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us.
- Joshua 10:40 ὀρεινή And Joshua struck all the land of the hill country, and Nageb and the plain country, and Asedoth, and her kings, they did not leave of them one that was saved: and they utterly destroyed every thing that had the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel commanded,
- Joshua 11:2 ὀρεινή and to the kings who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Araba opposite Keneroth, and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor,
- Joshua 11:7 ὀρεινή And Joshua and all the men of war came upon them at the water of Maron suddenly; and they attacked them in the hill country.
- Joshua 11:16 ὀρεινή And Joshua took all the hill country, and all the land of Nageb, and all the land of Gosom, and the plain country, and that toward the west, and the mountain of Israel and the low country by the mountain;
- Joshua 11:21 ὀρεινή And Joshua came at that time, and utterly destroyed the Enakim out of the hill country, from Chebron and from Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from all the race of Israel, and from all the mountain of Juda with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.
- Joshua 13:6 ὀρεινή every one that inhabits the hill country from Libanus as far as Masereth Memphomaim. All the Sidonians, I will destroy them from before Israel; but do you give them by inheritance to Israel, as I charged you.
- Joshua 15:48 ὀρεινή And in the hill country Samir, and Jether, and Socha,
- Joshua 16:1 ὀρεινή And the borders of the children of Joseph were from Jordan by Jericho eastward; and they will go up from Jericho to the hill country, to the wilderness, to Baethel Luza.
- Joshua 18:13 ὀρεινή And the borders will go forth thence to Luz, behind Luz, from the south of it; this is Baethel: and the borders shall go down to Maatarob Orech, to the hill country, which is southward of Baethoron the lower.
- Judges 1:9 ὀρεινή And afterwards the children of Judas went down to fight with the Chananite dwelling in the hill country, and the south, and the plain country.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 ὀρεινή And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel: for he was a husbandman.
- Jeremiah 40:13 ὀρεινή In the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the cities round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, flocks shall yet pass under the hand of him that numbers them, says the Lord.
- Zechariah 7:7 ὀρεινή Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?
About this word
About this word
ὀρεινή (oreinḗ), “hill country,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 21 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →