◄ 2768. Chermon ►
Brown-Driver-Briggs חֶרְמוֺן proper name, of a mountain Hermon (sacred mountain, compare Sabean מחרם, etc., temple, Arabic interior of mosque, asylum, WetzstZKW see 1884, 115 RSSemitic 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 Deuteronomy 4:48; by the Amorites שְׂנִיר, by the Sidonians שִׂרְיֹן Deuteronomy 3:9. It has three peaks; and the names חרמון and שׂניר, distinguished in 1 Chronicles 5:23; Songs 4:8, may refer to two of these peaks; חֶרְמוֺנִים Psalm 42:7 probably refers to these different peaks (see RobBR iii. 357 BädPal 301). It is a northern boundary ׳עד הר ח Deuteronomy 3:8; Joshua 12:1; הר חרמוֺן mount Hermon is used also Joshua 11:17; Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:5,11; 1 Chronicles 5:23; but חרמון Joshua 11:3; Psalm 89:13; Psalm 133:3; Songs 4:8. see בַּעַל חֶרְמוֺן Judges 3:3; 1 Chronicles 5:23 (see Wetzstib. 115). חֶרְמוֺנִים see foregoing. Forms and Transliterations וְ֝חֶרְמ֗וֹן וְחֶרְמ֔וֹן וחרמון חֶרְמ֑וֹן חֶרְמ֔וֹן חֶרְמ֖וֹן חֶרְמ֗וֹן חֶרְמ֛וֹן חֶרְמ֤וֹן חֶרְמֽוֹן׃ חרמון חרמון׃ לְחֶרְמ֖וֹן לחרמון cherMon ḥer·mō·wn ḥermōwn lə·ḥer·mō·wn lecherMon ləḥermōwn vecherMon wə·ḥer·mō·wn wəḥermōwn Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts