oros denotes an elevated landform, especially a place people ascend, descend, gather, pray, or flee to.

The term most often identifies a physical elevated place in narratives and locations: people go up, come down, sit, pray, gather, or flee among such places. A smaller group of passages uses mountains within prophetic, comparative, or visionary speech, including things moved by faith, landscape-level upheaval, and seven mountains in a vision.

1. Physical elevated place or named location · dominant

   The singular and plural forms identify places of movement, gathering, and activity: in Matthew 14:23 the APB renders Jesus going up alone to pray, while in Mark 9:9 it renders the group coming down. The term also occurs in named-location expressions, as in Acts 1:12 and Luke 22:39, and in flight or habitation settings in Luke 21:21 and Hebrews 11:38.

   Matthew 14:23Mark 9:9Acts 1:12Luke 22:39Luke 21:21Hebrews 11:38
2. Mountain in figurative or visionary discourse · occasional

   In 1 Corinthians 13:2, plural accusative forms occur in the statement about faith sufficient to move mountains. In Revelation 17:9, plural nominative forms are part of the vision's explanation of seven heads as seven mountains; Revelation 16:20 likewise describes mountains no longer being found.

   1 Corinthians 13:2Revelation 17:9Revelation 16:20Luke 3:5Luke 23:30Mark 11:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term as "mountain" or as part of "Mount" expressions, while Luke 4:29 renders the surrounding location as "the brow of the hill." These English expressions indicate the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed one-to-one rendering.