חֶרְמוֹן
chermon · Hermon
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2768 · appears 13 times in the Bible
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chermon (חֶרְמוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Hermon”.
A high mountain north of Israel.
How to say it
cher·mon
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Hermon
Today: Mount Hermon: Lebanon-Syria border, Israeli-held part
The highest mountain in northern Israel, on the border with Syria and Lebanon.
It was the northern limit of what Israel took east of the Jordan (Deut 3:8). The Psalms speak of its dew (Ps 133:3).
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 3:8
So at that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
- Deuteronomy 3:9
(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),
- Deuteronomy 4:48
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as far as Mount Siyon, that is, Hermon,
- Joshua 11:3
the Canaanite in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
- Joshua 11:17
from Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And all their kings he took and struck them and put them to death.
- Joshua 12:1
Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they took possession of beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the brook Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:
- Joshua 12:5
and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- Joshua 13:5
and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- Joshua 13:11
and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;
- 1 Chronicles 5:23
And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land, from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon; they multiplied.
- Psalms 89:12
The north and the south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy in your name.
- Psalms 133:3
like the dew of Hermon that comes down on the mountains of Zion; for there YHWH commanded the blessing, life forever.
- Song of Songs 4:8
With me from Lebanon, bride, with me from Lebanon you will come; you will look from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.