Dict: easton - Moreh

easton:

Moreh @ an archer, teacher; fruitful.

(1.) A Canaanite probably who inhabited the district south of Shechem, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, and gave his name to the "plain" there kjv@Genesis:12:6). Here at this "plain," or rather (R.V.) "oak," of Moreh, Abraham built his first altar in the land of Palestine; and here the Lord appeared unto him. He afterwards left this plain and moved southward, and pitched his tent between Bethel on the west and Hai on the east kjv@Genesis:12:7-8).

Moreh, the Hill of @ probably identical with "little Hermon," the modern Jebel ed
- Duhy, or perhaps one of the lower spurs of this mountain. It is a gray ridge parallel to Gilboa on the north; and between the two lay the battle-field, the plain of Jezreel (q.v.), where Gideon overthrew the Midianites kjv@Judges:7:1-12).