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Mount Horeb, Hebrew: , Greek in the Septuagint: , Latin in the Vulgate: ''ラテン語:Horeb'', is the mountain at which the book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible states that the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God. It is described in two places (, ) as the "Mountain of God". The mountain is also called the Mountain of YHWH.〔 In other biblical passages, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Sinai. Although Sinai and Horeb are often considered to have been different names for the same place, there is a body of opinion that they may have been different locations.〔''Jewish Encyclopedia'', (Mount Horeb )〕 The Protestant reformer John Calvin took the view that Sinai and Horeb were the same mountain, with the eastern side of the mountain being called Sinai and the western side being called Horeb.〔http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/calvin/cc03/cc03006.htm〕 Abraham Ibn Ezra suggested that there was one mountain, "only it had two tops, which bore these different names". 〔Gill, John (Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible ) on Deuteronomy 5, accessed 2 November 2015〕 ==Etymology== Horeb is thought to mean ''glowing''/''heat'', which seems to be a reference to the Sun, while Sinai may have derived from the name of Sin, the Sumerian deity of the Moon, and thus Sinai and Horeb would be the mountains of the moon and sun, respectively.〔 In Matityahu Clark's ''Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew'', the Semitic root for Horev, ''Chorev'' (Hebrew: חרב, ''Chet'', ''Reish'', ''Beit'') is related to the Hebrew word for sword, ''Cherev'' (Hebrew: חרב) (again ''Chet'', ''Reish'', ''Beit'') showing the meaning of ''Chorev'' as being "desolation as after a mighty battle", where the root for Sinai being ''Sineh'' (''Samech'', ''Nun'', ''Hey'') relating to both "bush" and the idea "to fend off an attack". The relationship between "fend off" and "bush" being that this bush has thorns to in fact "fend off" its enemies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Horeb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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