Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
hilly
Usage: ὀρεινός (WH, ὀριν-; see MM, xviii,) -ή, -όν (ὄρος), mountainous, hilly; ἡ ὀ. (sc. χώρα), the hill-country (LXX for הַר): Luk.1:39, 65 † (AS)
Oreinos means “hill country” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3714 — kaphic (“beam”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3714 ὀρεινός (oreinos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. oreinos (or-ei-nos') adj. 1. mountainous, i.e. the Highlands (of Judaea) {feminine by implication, of G5561} It has 28 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include hill and judaea. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
oreinos (or-ei-nos') adj. 1. mountainous, i.e. the Highlands (of Judaea) {feminine by implication, of G5561} [from G3735] KJV: hill country Root(s): G3735 Compare: G5561
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hilly
Usage: ὀρεινός (WH, ὀριν-; see MM, xviii,) -ή, -όν (ὄρος), mountainous, hilly; ἡ ὀ. (sc. χώρα), the hill-country (LXX for הַר): Luk.1:39, 65 † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render oreinos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G3714 (ὀρεινός) appears 26 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Now the salt valley consists of slime pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.
And Amalek dwells in the land toward the south: and the Hittite and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.
Only we did not draw near to the children of Ammon, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jabbok, and the cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.
11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And there came unto him all they that dwelt in the hill country, and all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tigris, and Hydaspes, and the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, and very many nations of the sons of Cheleul, assembled themselves to the battle.
and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;
Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3714.
Now the salt valley consists of slime pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.
And Amalek dwells in the land toward the south: and the Hittite and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.
Only we did not draw near to the children of Ammon, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jabbok, and the cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.
and she said to them, Depart into the hill country, lest the pursuers meet you, and ye shall be hidden there three days until your pursuers return from after you, and afterward ye shall depart on your way.
And they came to the hill country, and remained there three days; and the pursuers searched all the roads, and found them not.
And when the kings of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan, who were in the mountain country, and in the plain, and in all the coast of the great sea, and those who were near Antilebanon, and the Hittites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites, heard of it,
and to the kings who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Arabah opposite Chinneroth, and to the plain, and to Naphoth-dor,
And Joshua and all the men of war came upon them at the water of Merom suddenly; and they attacked them in the hill country.
And Joshua took all the hill country, and all the land of Negeb, and all the land of Goshen, and the plain country, and that toward the west, and the mountain of Israel and the low country by the mountain;
everyone that inhabits the hill country from Lebanon as far as Misrephoth-maim. All the Sidonians, I will destroy them from before Israel; but do thou give them by inheritance to Israel, as I charged thee.
And in the hill country Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
And the borders of the children of Joseph were from Jordan by Jericho eastward; and they will go up from Jericho to the hill country, to the wilderness, to Bethel Luz.
And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight with the Canaanite dwelling in the hill country, and the south, and the plain country.
And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel: for he was a husbandman.
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
And there came unto him all they that dwelt in the hill country, and all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tigris, and Hydaspes, and the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, and very many nations of the sons of Cheleul, assembled themselves to the battle.
and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;
Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.
So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Heshbon, and passing over Jordan they possessed all the hill country.
But now are they returned to their God, and are come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.
Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill country, and shall set thee in one of the cities of the passages:
So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill country, and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia.
Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and camped in the hill country over against Dothan: and they sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east, over against Egrebeh, which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain, and covered the face of the whole land; and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude.
Now therefore, if thy people that dwelleth in the mountains had not set light by me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them: but they have done these things to themselves.
They also that had camped in the mountains round about Bethulia fled away. Then the children of Israel, everyone that was a warrior among them, rushed out upon them.
And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter had that which remained; and the villages and the cities, that were in the mountains and in the plain, got many spoils: for the multitude was very great.
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Oreinos (Strong's G3714) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hill country". oreinos (or-ei-nos') adj. 1. mountainous, i.e. the Highlands (of Judaea) {feminine by implication, of G5561}
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's G3714 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3714 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hill and judaea. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3714, with linked reader references where each row is available.