KJV King James Version
([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
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Deuteronomy 3:9
([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
WEB World English Bible
(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
ASV American Standard Version
(which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir);
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
(Sidonians call Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites call it Senir,)
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 3
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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;
9 ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
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.
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
12 And this land, [which] we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
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1 Chronicles 5:23And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.Psalm 29:6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.Ezekiel 27:5They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.Psalm 133:3As 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 4:8Come 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.Psalm 89:12The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.Deuteronomy 4:48-49From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon,Joshua 11:17[Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
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