Hermon — Bible place

A peak, the eastern prolongation of the Anti-Lebanon range, reaching to the height of about 9,200 feet above the Mediterranean. It marks the north boundary of Palestine (Deut. 3:8, 4:48; Josh. 11:3, 17; 13:11; 12:1), and is seen from a great distance. It is about 40 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. It is called “the Hermonites” (Ps. 42:6) because it has more than one summit. The Sidonians called it Sirion, and the Amorites Shenir (Deut. 3:9; Cant. 4:8). It is also called Baal-hermon (Judg. 3:3; 1 Chr. 5:23) and Sion (Deut. 4:48). There is every probability that one of its three summits was the scene of the transfiguration (q.v.). The “dew of Hermon” is referred to (Ps. 89: 12). Its modern name is Jebel-esh-Sheikh, “the chief mountain.” It is one of the most conspicuous mountains in Palestine or Syria. “In whatever part of Palestine the Israelite turned his eye northward, Hermon was there, terminating the view. From the plain along the coast, from the Jordan valley, from the heights of Moab and Gilead, from the plateau of Bashan, the pale, blue, snow-capped cone forms the one feature in the northern horizon.”

Our Lord and his disciples climbed this “high mountain apart” one day, and remained on its summit all night, “weary after their long and toilsome ascent.” During the night “he was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun.” The next day they descended to Caesarea Philippi.

Recorded scripture occurrences (7)

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Show passage in OET: DEU 3:9

OET-RV DEU 3:9

9 (called Mt. Siryon by the Tsidonim (Sidonians), and Mt. Senir by the Amorim).

OET-LV DEU 3:9

9 The_Tsīdonī/(Sidonians) they _call (to)_Ḩermōn Shiryōn and_the_ʼAmorī[s] they _call to_him/it Sənīr.

Show passage in OET: DEU 4:48

OET-RV DEU 4:48

48 from Aroer city in the south along the edge of the Arnon valley, and as far north as Mt. Tsiyon (Zion) (normally called Mt. Hermon)

OET-LV DEU 4:48

48 From_ˊArōˊēr which is_on the _edge _of the _wadi _of ʼArnōn and_unto the _mountain _of Siyʼon that is_Ḩermōn.

Show passage in OET: JOS 11:3

OET-RV JOS 11:3

3 and the kings of the Kena’anim (Canaanites) both east and west, and the Amorim, Hitim, Perizim, and the Yevusim who lived in the hill country, and to the Hivim by Mt. Hermon in the Mitspah region.

OET-LV JOS 11:3

3 The_Kənaˊₐnī/(Canaanite)[s] from_the_east and_from_the_west and_the_ʼAmorī[s] and_the_Ḩittiy[s] and_the_Pərizzī[s] and_the_Yəⱱūşī/(Jebusite)[s] in_country and_the_Ḩiūī[s] under Ḩermōn in_land of _(the)_Miʦpāh.

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