Givat HaMoreh

Givat HaMoreh (Hebrew: גבעת המוֹרֶה, Arabic: جبل الدحي, romanized: Jebel ed-Dahi) is a hill in northern Israel on the northeast side of the Jezreel Valley.

[1] One can also think of a holy man living on Givat HaMoreh who could bring about rain, or of a rainmaking cult once practiced at the site.

[3] In Arabic, the hill is known as "Mount Dahi" (Jebel ed-Dahi), after the Muslim shrine (maqam) of Dihyah al-Kalbi situated at its top and housing the tomb of this seventh-century saint.

Translators who consider elon moreh to be the name of a locality, render it as "the plain(s) of Moreh", e.g. King James Version and the Geneva Bible, but translators who consider the term to refer to a sacred tree or grove often render it as "terebinth" (Pistacia terebinthus), a tree which is notable for its size and age in dry landscapes of the region.

Genesis 35:4: A neutral reading discovers that the tree, oak or not, grew above buried idols and dedicated treasure, the Hebrews remembered, and they associated the burial of these things with the patriarchal age.

[3] During the War of Independence in 1948, the area was completely dominated by Israeli forces, but local Arab population was not displaced.