har denotes an elevated landform, whether a named height, surrounding hill country, or mountains in the landscape.

The sampled verses use har for elevated terrain: a named mountain or mount, a height on which people stand or travel, and plural mountains or hill country within a wider landscape. The same noun remains concrete in descriptions of routes, battle positions, settlements, agricultural land, and poetic statements about mountains.

1. Elevated terrain and named heights · dominant

   The noun identifies concrete heights, both singular and plural. In 1 Samuel 23:26, Saul and David travel on opposite sides of the mountain; in 1 Samuel 17:3, the opposing forces stand by mountains with a valley between them; and in Deuteronomy 11:11 the APB renders the land as one of “mountains and valleys.” It also occurs in place designations, as the APB renders Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18:19 and the hill country of Ephraim in 1 Samuel 14:22.

   1 Samuel 23:261 Samuel 17:3Deuteronomy 11:111 Kings 18:191 Samuel 14:222 Kings 19:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the sampled verses, the APB presents the noun with “mountain,” “mountains,” “hills,” “hill country,” and named expressions such as “Mount Carmel.” These are renderings of whole clauses.