Deuteronomy 3:9

Bible in Basic English

(By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
([which] Hermon the Tzidonim call Siryon, and the Amori call it Senir;)

King James Version
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

Lexham English Bible
(The Sidonians called Hermon ‘Sirion,' and the Amorites called it ‘Senir.')

English Standard Version
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),

New Century Version
(Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonian people, but the Amorites call it Senir.)

New English Translation
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir),

Amplified Bible
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

New American Standard Bible
(Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

Geneva Bible (1587)
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Shirion, but the Amorites call it Shenir)

Legacy Standard Bible
(Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

Contemporary English Version
Mount Hermon is called Mount Sirion by the people of Sidon, and it is called Mount Senir by the Amorites.

Complete Jewish Bible
the Hermon which the Tzidonim call Siryon and the Emori call S'nir,

Darby Translation
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

Easy-to-Read Version
(The people from Sidon call Mount Hermon, Sirion, but the Amorites called it Senir.)

George Lamsa Translation
(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

Good News Translation
(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.)

Christian Standard Bible®
which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir,

Literal Translation
The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(which the Sidons call Sirion, but the Amorites call it Senir)

American Standard Version
(which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir);

Bishop's Bible (1568)
(Which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir)

JPS Old Testament (1917)
which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir--

King James Version (1611)
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Syrion: and the Amorites call it Shenir.)

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Phoenicians call Aermon Sanior, but the Amorite has called it Sanir.

English Revised Version
(which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)

Berean Standard Bible
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir-

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`which hil Sidonyes clepen Sarion, and Ammorreis clepen Sanyr.

Young's Literal Translation
(Sidonians call Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites call it Senir,)

Update Bible Version
([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)

Webster's Bible Translation
([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

World English Bible
([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)

New King James Version
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

New Living Translation
(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

New Life Bible
(Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir).

New Revised Standard
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Sidonians, call Hermon Sirion, - but, the Amorites, call it Senir.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:

Revised Standard Version
(the Sido'nians call Hermon Si'rion, while the Amorites call it Senir),

New American Standard Bible (1995)
(Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):

Contextual Overview

¹ Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei. ² And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon. ³ So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight. ⁴ At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take. ⁵ All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns. ⁶ And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children. ⁷ But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns. ⁸ At that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; ⁹ (By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;) ¹⁰ All the towns of the table-land and all Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hermon: Mount Hermon is the south-eastern branch of Lebanon, beyond Jordan. The Chaldee Targumist, who places it at Cesarea and Samaritan interpreter call it toor talga, "the mountain of snow," because of its being always covered with snow; and Jerome informs us, that it lies higher than Paneas or Cזsarea Philippi, and that in the summer time snow used to be carried from thence to Tyre. It is now call El Heish, and is comprised in the district of Kanneytra. Deuteronomy 4:48, Deuteronomy 4:49, Psalms 29:6, Psalms 89:12, Psalms 133:3, Song of Solomon 4:8

Shenir: 1 Chronicles 5:23, Ezekiel 27:5, Senir

Reciprocal: Joshua 12:1 - from the Joshua 12:5 - Hermon Judges 3:3 - in mount Psalms 42:6 - Hermonites

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Genesis 3:20
And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

Genesis 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion,.... Which name it has in Psalms 29:6 a name the inhabitants of Sidon gave it, but for what reason it is not easy to say; however, that it was well known to Tyre and Sidon, appears from snow in summer time being brought to the former, as will be hereafter observed:

and the Amorites call it Shenir; in whose possession it was last. Bochart k thinks it had its name from the multitude of wild cats in it, Shunar in the Chaldee tongue being the name of that creature; but Jarchi says Shenir in the Canaanitish language signifies "snow"; so, in the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, it is called the mountain of snow; and the Hebrew who read to Jerom, and taught him, affirmed to him that this mountain hung over Paneas, from whence snow in summer time was brought to Tyre for pleasure l, and the same is confirmed by Abulfeda m. There is said to be upon the top of it a famous temple, which is used for worship by the Heathens, over against Paneas and Lebanon n; and it is highly probable there was one even at this time, when it was possessed by the Amorites, since it is called Mount Baalhermon, Judges 3:3, from the worship of Baal, or some other idol upon it, as it should seem. Besides these, it had another name, Mount Sion, Deuteronomy 4:48 but to be distinguished from Mount Zion near Jerusalem. The names of it in this place are very differently interpreted by Hillerus o; though he thinks it had them all on account of the snow on it, which was as a net all over it; for Hermon, he observes, signifies a net, a dragnet, and Shenir an apron, and Sirion a coat of mail, all from the covering of this mount with snow.

k Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 14. col. 865. l De loc. Heb. fol. 88. B, C. m Apud Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. par. 2. p. 920. n De loc. Heb. fol. 88. B, C. o Onomastic. Sacr. p. 561, 562, 786, 929.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hermon, the southern and culminating point of the range of Lebanon, was also the religious center of primaeval Syria. Its Baal sanctuaries not only existed but gave it a name before the Exodus. Hence, the careful specification of the various names by which the mountain was known. The Sidonian name of it might easily have become known to Moses through the constant traffic which had gone on from the most ancient times between Sidon and Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 3:9. Hermon the Sidonians call - Shenir — I suppose this verse to have been a marginal remark, which afterwards got incorporated with the text, or an addition by Joshua or Ezra.