Deuteronomy 3:9

Contemporary English Version

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

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):

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;)

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 Moses said to Israel: When we turned onto the road that leads to Bashan, King Og of Bashan led out his whole army to fight us at Edrei. ² But the Lord told me, "Moses, don't be afraid of King Og. I am going to help you defeat him and his army and take over his land. Destroy him and his people, just as you did with the Amorite King Sihon of Heshbon." ³The Lord our God helped us destroy Og and his army and conquer his entire kingdom of Bashan, including the Argob region. His kingdom had lots of villages and sixty towns with high walls and gates that locked with bars. We completely destroyed them all, killing everyone, ⁷ but keeping the livestock and everything else of value. ⁸ Sihon and Og had ruled Amorite kingdoms east of the Jordan River. Their land stretched from the Arnon River gorge in the south to Mount Hermon in the north, and we captured it all. ⁹ Mount Hermon is called Mount Sirion by the people of Sidon, and it is called Mount Senir by the Amorites. ¹⁰ We captured all the towns in the highlands, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, two of the towns that Og had ruled. ¹¹ King Og was the last of the Rephaim, and his coffin is in the town of Rabbah in Ammon. It is made of hard black rock and is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide.

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
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."

Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."

Genesis 3:17
The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.

Genesis 3:19
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."

Genesis 3:20
The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.

Genesis 3:21
Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.

Genesis 4:9
Afterwards the Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel?" "How should I know?" he answered. "Am I supposed to look after my brother?"

Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,

Genesis 16:8
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."

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.