Shenir
SHENIR
See HERMON.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Shenir
(Heb., Shenir’ [so in Deu 3:9 Son 4:8 but in 1Ch 5:23, Eze 27:5, Senir’ ], Gesenius, coat of mail, or cataract; Furst, either a projecting mountain peak or snow mountain Sept. v.r. ), the Amoritish name for the mountain in the north of Palestine (Deu 3:9; Ezekiel 27) which the Hebrews called Hermon, and the Phoenicians Sirion; or perhaps it was a name rather for a portion of the mountain than for the whole. In 1Ch 5:23, and Son 4:8, Hermon and it are mentioned as distinct. Abulfeda (ed. Kohler, p. 164, quoted by Gesenius) reports that the part of Antilebanon north of Damascus that usually denominated Jebel esh-Shurky, the East Mountain was in his day called Seir. The use of the word in Ezekiel is singular. In describing Tyre we should naturally expect to find the Phoenician name (Sirion) of the mountain employed, if the ordinary Israelitish name (Hermon) were discarded. That it is not so may show that in the time of Ezekiel the name of Senir had lost its original significance as an Amoritish name, and was employed without that restriction. The Targum of Joseph on 1Ch 5:23 (ed. Beck) renders Senir by , of which the most probable translation is the mountain of the plains of the Perizzites. In the edition of Wilkins the text is altered to , the mountain that corrupteth fruits, in agreement with the Targums on Deu 3:9, though it is there given as the equivalent of Sirion. Which of these is the original it is perhaps impossible now to decide. The former has the slight consideration in its favor that the Hivites are specially mentioned as under Mount Hermon, and thus may have been connected or confounded with the Perizzites; or the reading may have arisen from mere caprice, as that of the Samaritan version of Deu 3:9 appears to have done. SEE ANTILIBANUS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Shenir
=Senir, (Deut. 3:9; Cant. 4:8), the name given to Mount Hermon (q.v.) by the Sidonians.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Shenir
Deu 3:9; Son 4:8. Hebrew senir, the Amorite name for Mount Hermon. (See SENIR; MOUNT HERMON.) (1Ch 5:23; Eze 27:5).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Shenir
shener (, senr, , shenr): Only found in Son 4:8 (Massoretic Text). See SENIR.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Shenir
[Shenir’] See HERMON.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Shenir
Called also Senir, Amorite name of Mount Hermon.
Deu 3:9; 1Ch 5:23; Son 4:8; Eze 27:5
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Shenir
She’nir. See Senir.