Deuteronomy 3 · Verse 9

Deuteronomy 3:9

(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
Deuteronomy 3:9, King James Version

Deuteronomy 3:9 in other translations

BSBwhich the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
WEB(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
ASV(which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir);
YLT(Sidonians call Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites call it Senir,)
DARBY(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):
BBE(By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)
Webster(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

What does Deuteronomy 3:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. Hermon--now Jebel-Es-Sheick--the majestic hill on which the long and elevated range of Anti-Lebanon terminates. Its summit and the ridges on its sides are almost constantly covered with snow. It is not so much one high mountain as a whole cluster of mountain peaks, the highest in Palestine. According to the survey taken by the English Government Engineers in 1840, they were about 9376 feet above the sea. Being a mountain chain, it is no wonder that it should have received different names at different points from the different tribes which lay along the base--all of them designating extraordinary height: Hermon, the lofty peak; "Sirion," or in an abbreviated form "Sion" (De 4:48), the upraised, glittering; "Shenir," the glittering breastplate of ice.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Hermon the Sidonians call - Shenir - I suppose this verse to have been a marginal remark, which afterwards got incorporated with the text, or an addition by Joshua or Ezra.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:1-11

Og was very powerful, but he did not take warning by the ruin of Sihon, and desire conditions of peace. He trusted his own strength, and so was hardened to his destruction. Those not awakened by the judgments of God on others, ripen for the like judgments on themselves.

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Deuteronomy 3:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

צִידֹנִ֛יםtzi.do.Nim[the] SidoniansH6722
יִקְרְא֥וּyik.re.'Uthey callH7121
לְחֶרְמ֖וֹןle.cher.Mon<to> HermonH2768
שִׂרְיֹ֑ןsir.YonSirionH8303
וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔יve.Ha.'e.mo.Riand the Amorite[s]H567
יִקְרְאוּ\־yik.re.'u-they callH7121
ל֖וֹlo<to> it
שְׂנִֽיר\׃se.NirSenirH8149

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 3:9

  • 1 Chronicles 5:23

    And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal–hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

  • Psalms 29:6

    He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

  • Psalms 133:3

    As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

  • Song of Solomon 4:8

    Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

  • Ezekiel 27:5

    They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

  • Joshua 11:17

    Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal–gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

  • Deuteronomy 4:48-49

    From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon, And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

  • Psalms 89:12

    The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hermon.Mount Hermon is the south-eastern branch of Lebanon, beyond Jordan. The Chaldee Targumist, who places it at Cæsarea and Samaritan interpreter call it {toor talga,} "the mountain of snow," because of its being always covered with snow; and Jerome informs us, that it lies higher than Paneas or Cæsarea Philippi, and that in the summer time snow used to be carried from thence to Tyre. It is now call El Heish, and is comprised in the district of Kanneytra.
4:48,49; Ps 29:6; 89:12; 133:3; So 4:8
Shenir.
1Ch 5:23; Eze 27:5
Senir.

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 3:8

    And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;

  • Deuteronomy 3:9

    (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

  • Deuteronomy 3:10

    All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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Deuteronomy 3:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
(Los Sidonios llaman á Hermón Sirión; y los Amorrheos, Senir:)
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
(les Sidoniens appellent l’Hermon, Sirion, et les Amoréens l’appellent Senir);
German
Elberfelder 1871
:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
quem Sidonii Sarion vocant, et Amorrhæi Sanir: