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Mount Hermon

Mount Hermon, also known as Baal-hermon, Baal-hamon, Baal-gad, Senir, or Sirion, was a prominent mountain on the northern border of Israel.
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Summary

A location first mentioned at Deuteronomy 3:8; referred to as Hermon Mount or Hermon (חֶרְמוֹן), Hermon (חֶרְמוֹנִים), (Mount )Baal-hermon (בַּ֫עַל חֶרְמוֹן), Baal-hamon (בַּ֫עַל הָמוֹן), Baal-gad (בַּ֫עַל גָּד), Senir (שְׂנִיר), (Mount )Sirion (שִׂיאֹן), or Sirion (שָׂדַי, שִׂרְיֹן).

Location

Certainty
Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates
33.400° N, 35.850° E
Mount Hermon
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Events

Dates are approximate

Glossary entries

Mount Hermon Sirion Baal-Gad Baal-Hermon Senir Shenir Sion Baal-Hamon Mount Hermon

Alternative names

Mentions

  1. Deuteronomy 3:8חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
  2. Deuteronomy 3:9חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon; שְׂנִיר · Senir; שִׂרְיֹן · Sirion
    …which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
  3. Deuteronomy 4:48חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon; שִׂיאֹן · Sirion
    …extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
  4. Joshua 11:3חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    …to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
  5. Joshua 11:17בַּ֫עַל גָּד · Baal-gad; חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    …from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.
  6. Joshua 12:1חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
  7. Joshua 12:5חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
  8. Joshua 12:7בַּ֫עַל גָּד · Baal-gad
    And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
  9. Joshua 13:5בַּ֫עַל גָּד · Baal-gad; חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    …the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
  10. Joshua 13:11חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    …also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
  11. Judges 3:3בַּ֫עַל חֶרְמוֹן · Baal-hermon
    …the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
  12. 1 Chronicles 5:23בַּ֫עַל חֶרְמוֹן · Baal-hermon; חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon; שְׂנִיר · Senir
    Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon).
  13. Psalm 29:6שִׂרְיֹן · Sirion
    He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
  14. Psalm 42:6חֶרְמוֹנִים · Mount Hermon
    O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
  15. Psalm 89:12חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
  16. Psalm 133:3חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon
    It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
  17. Song of Solomon 4:8חֶרְמוֹן · Mount Hermon; שְׂנִיר · Senir
    Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
  18. Song of Solomon 8:11בַּ֫עַל הָמוֹן · Baal-hamon
    Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
  19. Jeremiah 18:14שָׂדַי · Sirion
    Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
  20. Ezekiel 27:5שְׂנִיר · Senir
    They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.