(1.) Hebrews gib'eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Psalm 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6).

(2.) Hebrews har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual eminence (Exodus 24:4, 12, 13, 18; Numbers 14:40, 44, 45). In Deuteronomy 1:7, Joshua 9:1; 10:40; 11:16, it denotes the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

(3.) Hebrews ma'aleh in 1 Samuel 9:11. Authorized Version "hill" is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "ascent."

(4.) In Luke 9:37 the "hill" is the Mount of Transfiguration.

Hill of Evil Counsel

On the south of the Valley of Hinnom. It is so called from a tradition that the house of the high priest Caiaphas, when the rulers of the Jews resolved to put Christ to death, stood here.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

2. (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.

3. (n.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.

4. (v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.