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Strong's #1630: Griziym (pronounced gher-ee-zeem')

plural of an unused noun from 1629 (compare 1511), cut up (i.e. rocky); Gerizim, a mountain of Palestine:--Gerizim.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gerizı̂ym

Gerizim = "cuttings off"

1) a mountain in northern Israel in Ephraim near Shechem from which the blessings were read to the Israelites on entering Canaan; site of the Samaritan temple built after the captivity

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: plural of an unused noun from H1629



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Deuteronomy 11:29: "the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount"
Deuteronomy 27:12: "shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over"
Joshua 8:33: "as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over"
Judges 9:7: "and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said"









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