βουνός, βουνοῦ, ὁ, a Cyrenaic word according to Herodotus 4, 199, which Eustathius (831, 33) on Iliad 11, 710 says was used by Philemon (No theta 1), a comic poet (of the 3rd century B.C.). It was rejected by the Atticists, but from Polybius on (who (5, 22, 1f) uses it interchangeably with λόφος) it was occasionally received by the later Greek writings. (Strabo, Pausanias, Plutarch, others); in the Sept. very often for גִּבְעָה; (perhaps from ΒΑΩ to ascend (cf. Hesychius βουνοί. βωμοί, and βωμιδες in Herodotus 2, 125 (Schmidt, chapter 99, 11))); a hill, eminence, mound: Luke 3:5 (Isaiah 40:4); (Hosea 10:8). Cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 153f; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 355f; (Donaldson, New Crat. § 469).
Luke 3:5 - N-NMS GRK:ὄρος καὶ βουνὸς ταπεινωθήσεται καὶ NAS: MOUNTAIN AND HILL WILL BE BROUGHT LOW; KJV: and hill shall be brought low; INT: mountain and hill will be made low and
Luke 23:30 - N-DMP GRK:καὶ τοῖς βουνοῖς Καλύψατε ἡμᾶς NAS: FALL ON US,' AND TO THE HILLS, 'COVER KJV: us; and to the hills, Cover us. INT: and to the hills Cover us
