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moriah


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Moriah,  NY 
  Zip  code(s):  12960 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Moriah 
  the  chosen  of  Jehovah.  Some  contend  that  Mount  Gerizim  is  meant 
  but  most  probably  we  are  to  regard  this  as  one  of  the  hills  of 
  Jerusalem.  Here  Solomon's  temple  was  built,  on  the  spot  that  had 
  been  the  threshing-floor  of  Ornan  the  Jebusite  (2  Sam.  24:24, 
  25;  2  Chr.  3:1).  It  is  usually  included  in  Zion,  to  the 
  north-east  of  which  it  lay,  and  from  which  it  was  separated  by 
  the  Tyropoean  valley.  This  was  "the  land  of  Moriah"  to  which 
  Abraham  went  to  offer  up  his  son  Isaac  (Gen.  22:2).  It  has  been 
  supposed  that  the  highest  point  of  the  temple  hill,  which  is  now 
  covered  by  the  Mohammedan  Kubbetes-Sakhrah,  or  "Dome  of  the 
  Rock,"  is  the  actual  site  of  Araunah's  threshing-floor.  Here 
  also  one  thousand  years  after  Abraham,  David  built  an  altar  and 
  offered  sacrifices  to  God.  (See  {JERUSALEM};  NUMBERING 
  THE  {PEOPLE}.) 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Moriah,  bitterness  of  the  Lord