H2768 חֶרְמוֹן (Chermôwn) kher-mone'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

(Mount) Hermon

Biblical Persons & Places

Hermon_Mount Mount Hermon

A location first mentioned at Deu.3.8; referred to as Hermon Mount or Hermon (חֶרְמוֹן), or Hermon (חֶרְמוֹנִים), or (Mount )Baal-hermon (NIV= Baal Hermon) (בַּ֫עַל חֶרְמוֹן), or Baal-hamon (NIV= Baal Hamon) (בַּ֫עַל הָמוֹן), or Baal-gad (NIV= Baal Gad) (בַּ֫עַל גָּד), or Senir (שְׂנִיר), or (Mount )Sirion (KJV= Sion) (שִׂיאֹן), or Sirion (KJV= "field," NIV= "slope") (שָׂדַי), or Sirion (שִׂרְיֹן).

Strong's Definition

Chermon, a mount of Palestine

Derivation: from H2763 (חָרַם); abrupt;

KJV Usage: Hermon.

TWOT Reference: 744b

Outline of Biblical Usage

Hermon = "a sanctuary"

1) a mountain on the northeastern border of Palestine and Lebanon and overlooking the border city of Dan

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חֶרְמוֹן (cher.mon) — (Mount) Hermon.

§ Hermon = "a sanctuary" a mountain on the northeastern border of Palestine and Lebanon and overlooking the border city of Dan

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

חֶרְמֹון (H2768 · H2769) — חֶרְמֹונִים

name · חרם · בַּעַל חֶרְמֹון

Names of Landforms | ≈ שִׂיאֹון · שְׂנִיר · שִׂרְיֹון

Hermon = mountain, also known as Senir, Sion, and Sirion; ◄ part of the Anti-Lebanon range; located north-east of Israel

DEU 3:8 · DEU 3:9 · DEU 4:48 · JOS 11:3 · JOS 11:17 · JOS 12:1 · JOS 12:5 · JOS 13:5 · JOS 13:11 · 1CH 5:23 · PSA 42:7 · PSA 89:13 · PSA 133:3 · SNG 4:8

¹ NJB | MT HOTTP-C RSV NIV NRSV CEV "Harmon" | NJPS NJB "dunghill"

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֶרְמוֹן n.pr.mont. Hermon (sacred mountain) base

Bible Occurrences (12)

3:8 3:9 4:48

11:3 11:17 12:1 12:5 13:5 13:11

5:23

89:12 133:3

Deuteronomy 3:8

At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon —

Deuteronomy 3:9

which the Sidonians call... Sirion but the Amorites call Senir —

Deuteronomy 4:48

extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

Joshua 11:3

to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Joshua 11:17

from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.

Joshua 12:1

Now these [are] the kings of the land whom the Israelites... struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east..., from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:

Joshua 12:5

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Joshua 13:5

the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east..., from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.