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Hermon Mount
חֶרְמוֹן
Mount Hermon, also known as Baal-hermon, Baal-hamon, Baal-gad, Senir, or Sirion, was a prominent mountain on the northern border of Israel (Deut 3:8-9; 4:48; Josh 11:3,17; 12:1,5,7; 13:5,11; 1Ch.5.23; Psa.29.6; 42:6; 89:12; 133:3; Sng.4.8; 8:11; Jer.18.14; Ezk.27.5).
- verses
- 20
- first named
- Deuteronomy 3:8
- last named
- Ezekiel 27:5
- feature
- mountain
- coordinates
- 33.40°N · 35.85°E
Mount Hermon (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 7 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Hermon Mount in the text
Mount Hermon, located on the northern border of Israel, is the highest peak in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. It is also referred to by various names, including Baal-hermon, Baal-hamon, Baal-gad, Senir, and Sirion (Deut 3:8-9; 4:48; Josh 11:3,17; 12:1,5,7; 13:5,11; 1Ch.5.23; Psa.29.6; 42:6; 89:12; 133:3; Sng.4.8; 8:11; Jer.18.14; Ezk.27.5). The mountain marked the northern extent of the Promised Land conquered by Joshua (Josh 11:17; 12:1,5). It was also the northern limit of the territory allocated to the half-tribe of Manasseh (Josh 13:11; 1Ch.5.23). The Sidonians called the mountain Sirion, while the Amorites called it Senir (Deut 3:9; Ezk.27.5). Mount Hermon was known for its abundant dew (Psa.133.3) and was a source of refreshment for the surrounding lands (Jer.18.14). The mountain was also associated with the Canaanite god Baal, as evidenced by the names Baal-hermon, Baal-hamon, and Baal-gad (Judg 3:3; Sng.8.11). Its majestic appearance is celebrated in the Psalms (Psa.29.6; 89:12), and it is mentioned as a place of beauty and fertility (Sng.4.8).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Hermon Mount is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
20 verses across 8 of 66 books; 58 write the name nowhere. Named in Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (7), Judges (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Psalms (4), Song of Songs (2), Jeremiah (1) and Ezekiel (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 20, across 8 books. The name is written 28 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Joshua 12Mount Hermon lay within Og’s realm and marked the eastern extent of the western list.
- Psalms 42The peaks of Hermon are remembered alongside Jordan as the singer despairs.
- Psalms 89Hermon is named beside Tabor among the created places that shout for joy at the LORD’s name.
- Psalms 133Hermon supplies the dew pictured as falling on the mountains of Zion.
- Song of Songs 4Hermon is named among the summits from which the bride is called to descend.
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