חֶרְמוֹןChermôwn

Chermon, a mount of Palestine

Pronunciation: kher-mone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2768

Meanings

proper name [of a mountain]: Hermon, the highest peak of Anti-Lebanon range, usually snow-capped, commanding southern Syria & northern Palestine (Deuteronomy 4:48; Deuteronomy 3:9; 1 Chronicles 5:23; Song of Solomon 4:8; Psalms 42:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 3:8 “So we took the land of the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River—all the way from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon.
  • Deuteronomy 3:9 (Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
  • Deuteronomy 4:48 So Israel conquered the entire area from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon Gorge all the way to Mount Sirion, also called Mount Hermon.
  • Joshua 11:3 the kings of Canaan, both east and west; the kings of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites in the towns on the slopes of Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
  • Joshua 11:17 The Israelite territory now extended all the way from Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir in the south, as far north as Baal-gad at the foot of Mount Hermon in the valley of Lebanon. Joshua killed all the kings of those territories,
  • Joshua 12:1 These are the kings east of the Jordan River who had been killed by the Israelites and whose land was taken. Their territory extended from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon and included all the land east of the Jordan Valley.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).