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Deuteronomy 3:9

which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir-

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amorites;   Hermon;   Israel;   Og;   Reubenites;   Shenir;   Sirion;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Og;   Senir;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Hermon;   Weather;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Hermon;   Og;   Senir;   Shenir;   Sihon;   Sion;   Sirion;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amorite (the);   Arms;   Baal Hermon;   Hermon;   Og;   Senir;   Shenir;   Sirion;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hermon, Mount;   Og;   Senir;   Shenir;   Sirion;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amorites;   Canaanites;   Hermon;   Og;   Senir;   Sirion;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Phoenicia ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hermon ;   Og;   Zidonians, Sidonians ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount hermon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Edrei;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Argob;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baal (1);   Deuteronomy;   Hermon;   Og;   Senir;   Sidonians;   Sirion;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amorites;   Ashkenaz;   Gloss;   Hermon;   Parable;  

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);
Bible in Basic English
(By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)
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;)
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

1Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2But the LORD said to me, "Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon." 3So the LORD our God also handed over Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck them down until no survivor was left. 4At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take-the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages. 6We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. 7But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves. 8At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon- 9which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir-10all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

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 C×–sarea 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 answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
Genesis 3:20
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I do not know!" he answered. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 11:5
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Genesis 16:8
"Hagar, servant of Sarai," He said, "where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she replied.

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.


 
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