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# שְׂנִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8149

**Senir** — used 4 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

Senir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8149/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂנִיר: n.pr.mont. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8149/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.mont. Σανειρ: Amorite name of Ḥermon Dt 3:9, whence came cypress-trees Ez 27:5, prob. northern peak(s) of Ḥ. 1 Ch 5:23 Ct 4:8 (where + חֶרְמוֹן); so Arabic سنير, Abulfed. Par. 68, Syriac ܣܢܺܝܪ, Ecclus 24:13 al., Assyrian Saniru COT Dt 3:9 DlPa 104. Vid. also Dr Dt 3:9 BuhlGeogr. 110 f. and reff. \[van d. H. erron. שׁ׳ Dt Ct\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Senir (3); of Senir (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 —

[Ezekiel 27:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.5/#tree)

בְּרוֹשִׁ֤ים מִשְּׂנִיר֙ בָּ֣נוּ לָ֔ךְ אֵ֖ת כָּל־לֻֽחֹתָ֑יִם אֶ֤רֶז מִלְּבָנוֹן֙ לָקָ֔חוּ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת תֹּ֖רֶן עָלָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* fir.trees from Senir they.built your (et) all planks a.cedar from Lebanon they.took to make a.mast on you

*JPS 1917:* Of cypress-trees from Senir have they fashioned all thy planks; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8149.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8149/): 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).