Horeb

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Horeb
     desert or mountain of the dried-up ground, a general name for
     the whole mountain range of which Sinai was one of the summits
     (Ex. 3:1; 17:6; 33:6; Ps. 106:19, etc.). The modern name of the
     whole range is Jebel Musa. It is a huge mountain block, about 2
     miles long by about 1 in breadth, with a very spacious plain at


     its north-east end, called the Er Rahah, in which the Israelites
     encamped for nearly a whole year. (See {SINAI}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Horeb, desert; solitude; destruction