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ὄρος

mountain

G3735 Strong's Greek
óros Transliteration
/or'-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 63 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

ορος (óros) is a Greek noun most often rendered “mountain.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 4:8. It turns up in 63 verses across 10 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. It clusters with αιρω, αιρεομαι and αρα under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
hill
Modern gloss
mountain
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3735 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

63
distinct verses
The word appears in 63 distinct verses.
10 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:8
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:8.
Revelation 21:10
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:10.
#259
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 259 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 63 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 44 · 70%
  • Acts 3 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 5%
  • General Epistles 5 · 8%
  • Revelation 8 · 13%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 63 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 44 verses · 70%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 15 verses · 24%
  • Johannine 13 verses · 21%
  • Revelation 8 verses · 13%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 6%
  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 2%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Mountain 28×, Mount 21×, Mountains 13×
  • American Standard Version: Mountain 27×, Mount 21×, Mountains 11×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Mountain 30×, Mount 18×, Mountains 10×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mountain 29×, Mount 16×, Mountains 12×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3735 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Mountain” 28×
  • “Mount” 21×
  • “Mountains” 13×
  • “Hill” 3×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3735 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Mountain” 27×
  • “Mount” 21×
  • “Mountains” 11×
  • “Hill” 2×
  • “Unto” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3735 across 63 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Mountain” 30×
  • “Mount” 18×
  • “Mountains” 10×
  • “Hill” 2×
  • “Hillside” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3735 across 71 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Mountain” 29×
  • “Mount” 16×
  • “Mountains” 12×
  • “A” 5×
  • “Hill” 4×
  • “To” 3×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. a mountain

Word origin

Derived from αιρω (aírō) (G142) — to raise up.

Part of speech: Noun Neuter TDNT: 12:55,7

Probably a from an obsolete word ὄρω orō (to rise or rear; perhaps akin to G142 ; compare G3733 ); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain): - hill mount (-ain).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms G3735 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὄρος óros Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 4:8 28
ὄρους órous Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Matthew 5:14 12
ὄρει órei Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 17:20 11
ὄρη órē Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 18:12 7
ὄρεσιν óresin Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter Mark 5:5 4
ὀρέων oréōn Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter Revelation 6:15 1


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ορος appears 573 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 500 verses in 34 books.

573
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
500
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
34 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 34 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3735) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 500. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3735) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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