The Definition of the word Mount

Mount

Palestine is a hilly country (Deut. 3:25; 11:11; Ezek. 34:13). West of Jordan the mountains stretch from Lebanon far down into "Galilee, terminating in Carmel. The isolated peak of Tabor rises" "from the elevated plain of Esdraelon, which, in the south, is" shut in by hills spreading over the greater part of Samaria. The mountains of Western and Middle Palestine do not extend to the "sea, but gently slope into plains, and toward the Jordan fall" down into the Ghor. "East of the Jordan the Anti-Lebanon, stretching south, "terminates in the hilly district called Jebel Heish, which" reaches down to the Sea of Gennesareth. South of the river "Hieromax there is again a succession of hills, which are" traversed by wadies running toward the Jordan. These gradually "descend to a level at the river Arnon, which was the boundary of" the ancient trans-Jordanic territory toward the south. "The composition of the Palestinian hills is limestone, with "occasional strata of chalk, and hence the numerous caves, some" "of large extent, found there."