Meaning of MORE

(a) Terebinth (or oak) and grove near Shechem (Gen. 12:6; Deut. 11:29, 30). Abraham, arriving from Mesopotamia, planted his royal family there when he arrived in Canaan. He erected there an altar to Jehovah, who had appeared to him there (Gen. 12:7).

It is likely that it was under this same tree that Jacob buried the idols that his family had brought from Haran (Gen. 35:4). It was no doubt at More that Joshua erected a stone commemorating the renewal of the covenant, and there also, many years later, that the men of Shechem gathered to crown Abimelech (Josh. 24:26; Judges 9:6), although the terms translated oak and terebinth are slightly different in these various passages.

(b) Hill of the valley of Jezreel, north of the spring of Harod (Judges 7:1); prob. Jebel Dahy or Little Hermon, about 13 km northwest of Mount Gilboa, and 1.5 km south of Nain.