Bible Names

Shenir: meaning of the name

Shenir means “lantern; light that sleeps.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Shenir 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;

Shenir in Scripture

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

  • Deuteronomy 3:9

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

  • 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.