Moriah

3 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Moriah
     the chosen of Jehovah. Some contend that Mount Gerizim is meant,
     but most probably we are to regard this as one of the hills of
     Jerusalem. Here Solomon's temple was built, on the spot that had
     been the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite (2 Sam. 24:24,
     25; 2 Chr. 3:1). It is usually included in Zion, to the


     north-east of which it lay, and from which it was separated by
     the Tyropoean valley. This was "the land of Moriah" to which
     Abraham went to offer up his son Isaac (Gen. 22:2). It has been
     supposed that the highest point of the temple hill, which is now
     covered by the Mohammedan Kubbetes-Sakhrah, or "Dome of the
     Rock," is the actual site of Araunah's threshing-floor. Here
     also, one thousand years after Abraham, David built an altar and
     offered sacrifices to God. (See {JERUSALEM}; NUMBERING
     THE {PEOPLE}.)
     

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

  Moriah, bitterness of the Lord
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Moriah, NY
    Zip code(s): 12960