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# חֶרְמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2768

**Hermon** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hermon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2768/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶרְמוֹן: n.pr.mont. Hermon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2768/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.mont. Hermon (sacred mountain, cf. Sab. מחרם, etc., temple, Arabic حَرَامٌ interior of mosque, حُرْمَةٌ asylum, WetzstZKW v. 1884, 115 RSSem i. 93; 2nd ed., 94)—the highest peak of Anti-Lebanon range, usually snow-capped, commanding southern Syria & northern Palestine; it is called שִׂיאֹן by the author of Dt 4:48; by the Amorites שְׂנִיר, by the Sidonians שִׂרְיֹן Dt 3:9. It has three peaks; and the names חרמון and שׂניר, distinguished in 1 Ch 5:23 Ct 4:8, may refer to two of these peaks; חֶרְמוֹנִים ψ 42:7 prob. refers to these different peaks (see RobBR iii, 357 BädPal. 301). It is a northern boundary עד הר ח׳ Dt 3:8 Jos 12:1; הר חרמוֹן mount Hermon is used also Jos 11:17; 12:5; 13:5, 11 1 Ch 5:23; but חרמון Jos 11:3 ψ 89:13; 133:3 Ct 4:8. Vid. בַּעַל חֶרְמוֹן Ju 3:3 1 Ch 5:23 (see Wetzstib. 115).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Hermon (8); Hermon (4); \[is\] Hermon (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.9/#tree)

צִידֹנִ֛ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לְחֶרְמ֖וֹן שִׂרְיֹ֑ן וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י יִקְרְאוּ־ל֖וֹ שְׂנִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].Sidonians they.call (to) Hermon Sirion and the Amorite\[s\] they.call (to) it Senir

*JPS 1917:* which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir —

[Deuteronomy 4:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.48/#tree)

מֵעֲרֹעֵ֞ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר עַל־שְׂפַת־נַ֧חַל אַרְנֹ֛ן וְעַד־הַ֥ר שִׂיאֹ֖ן ה֥וּא חֶרְמֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* from Aroer which \[is\].on the.edge of.the.wadi of.Arnon and to the.mountain of.Siyon that \[is\].Hermon

*JPS 1917:* from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion — the same is Hermon —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2768/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).