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Strong's #8149 - שְׂנִיר
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Senir or Shenir = “snow mountain”
1) the Amorite name for Mount Hermon
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שׂעף (√ of following; Thes and others identification with סעף divide (q. v.), whence following as branching out, involved; Ba Esther 56 compare strike the () pericardium, be disquieted by a thing).
שְׂנִיר (“coat of mail,” i.q. שִׂרְיוֹן the name by which the same mountain was known by the Sidonians, see the root שָׂנַר ; unless it be better to render שְׂנִיר “cataract,” i.q. צִנּוֹר from the noise of water), [Senir], pr.n. of Mount Hermon, so called among the Ammonites, Deuteronomy 3:9 in a narrower sense, part of Hermon, Song of Solomon 4:8; 1 Chronicles 5:23, compare Ezekiel 27:5. Arabic سنير, according to Abulfeda (see Syria, ed. Köhler, p. 164), a ridge of mountains situated to the north of Damascus.