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# שִׂרְיֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8303

**Sirion** — used 2 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

Sirion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8303/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂרְיֹן: n.pr.mont. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8303/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** -וֹן n.pr.mont. (in Assyrian Sirara COT Dt 3:9; 1 K 5:13 DlPa 103 f.);—Sidonian name of Ḥermon Dt 3:9 (Σανιωρ); -וֹן ψ 29:6 (+ לְבָנוֹן; van d. H. al. שׂ׳).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sirion (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 29:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.6/#tree)

וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם כְּמוֹ־עֵ֑גֶל לְבָנ֥וֹן וְ֝שִׂרְיֹ֗ן כְּמ֣וֹ בֶן־רְאֵמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he made.them.leap.about like a.calf Lebanon and Sirion like a.young.one of.wild.oxen

*JPS 1917:* He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

[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 —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8303.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8303/): 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).