Bible Names

Senir: meaning of the name

Senir means “bed-candle; changing.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Senir in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁנִיר H8149

Shᵉnîyr (shen-eer') — Shenir or Senir, a summit of Lebanon

or שְׂנִיר; from an unused root meaning to be pointed; peak;

Places named Senir

Senir in Scripture

“Senir” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 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.

  • 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.