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Place

Sirion

Named in 3 verses across 3 books, first in Deuteronomy 3:9.

The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Mount Hermon.

In the Bible

All 1 verse in Deuteronomy, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Deuteronomy

  • Deuteronomy 3:9

    which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

A breastplate, the Sidonian name of Hermon (q.v.), Deut. 3:9; Ps. 29:6.

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