Deuteronomy 3:9

Easy-to-Read Version

(The people from Sidon call Mount Hermon, Sirion, but the Amorites called it Senir.)

Parallel Translations

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):

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and 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)

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

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

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;)

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir-

Amplified Bible
(the 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.

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

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

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

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

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

New International Version (1984)
(Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)

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

New International Version
(Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)

New American Standard Bible
(Sidonians call Hermon 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.)

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)

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;)

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 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),

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ "We turned and went on the road to Bashan. King Og of Bashan and all his men came out to fight against us at Edrei. ² The Lord said to me, ‘Don't be afraid of Og. I have decided to give him to you. I will give you all his men and his land. You will defeat him just as you defeated Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.' ³ "So the Lord our God let us defeat King Og of Bashan. We destroyed him and all his men. Not one of them was left. ⁴ Then we took all the cities that belonged to Og at that time. We took all the cities from Og's people—60 cities in the area of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were very strong. They had high walls, gates, and strong bars on the gates. There were also many towns that did not have walls. ⁶ We destroyed them just as we destroyed the cities of King Sihon of Heshbon. We completely destroyed every city and all the people in them, even the women and the babies. ⁷ But we kept all the cattle and the valuable things from the cities for ourselves. ⁸ "In that way we took the land from the two Amorite kings. We took that land on the east side of the Jordan River, from Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon. ⁹ (The people from Sidon call Mount Hermon, Sirion, but the Amorites called it Senir.) ¹⁰ We took all the cities in the high plain and all of Gilead. We took all of Bashan, all the way to Salecah and Edrei. Salecah and Edrei were cities of Og's kingdom of 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
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.

Genesis 3:19
You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die, and then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you, and when you die, you will become dust again."

Genesis 3:20
Adam named his wife Eve. He gave her this name because Eve would be the mother of everyone who ever lived.

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God used animal skins and made some clothes for the man and his wife. Then he put the clothes on them.

Genesis 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to watch over my brother?"

Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower.

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, why are you here? Where are you going?" Hagar said, "I am running away from Sarai."

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.