Word Summary
oreinos: mountainous, the hill country
Original Word: ὀρεινόςTransliteration: oreinos
Phonetic Spelling: (or-i-nos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: mountainous, the hill country
Meaning: mountainous, the hill country
Strong's Concordance
hill country.
From oros; mountainous, i.e. (feminine by implication, of chora) the Highlands (of Judaea) -- hill country.
see GREEK oros
see GREEK chora
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3714: ὀρεινόςὀρεινός,
ὀρεινῇ,
ὀρεινόν (
ὄρος),
mountainous, hilly;
ἡ ὀρεινῇ (
WH ὀρινη, see Iota) namely,
χώρα (cf.
Winers Grammar, 591 (550)) (which is added in
Herodotus 1, 110;
Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 3),
the mountain-district, hill-country:
Luke 1:39, 65 (
Aristotle, h. a. 5, 28, 4; the
Sept. for
הַר,
Genesis 14:10;
Deuteronomy 11:11;
Joshua 2:16, etc.).
STRONGS NT 3714: ὀρινος [ὀρινος, see ὀρεινός.]