Strong's #4179: Mowriyah (pronounced mo-ree-yaw')

or Moriyah {mo-ree-yaw'}; from 7200 and 3050; seen of Jah; Morijah, a hill in Palestine:--Moriah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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môrı̂yâh

Moriah = "chosen by Jehovah"

1) the place where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice

2) the mount on the eastern edge of Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H7200 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Genesis 22:2: "and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon"
2 Chronicles 3:1: "of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father,"