Sirion

Sirion is the Sidonian name for Mount Hermon, the great snow-capped massif at Israel's northern edge. The umbrella collects only the two passages where the name itself surfaces — one a geographic gloss, one a poetic theophany.

The Sidonian name for Hermon

Deuteronomy pauses to record what each neighboring people calls the mountain: "([which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)" (De 3:9). The parenthetical names the same peak under three labels — Hermon, Sirion, Senir — and identifies Sirion specifically as the Sidonian usage.

In the storm theophany of Psalm 29

The poet of Psalm 29 traces Yahweh's voice across the cedar country in a series of upheavals; the great northern mountains buck like animals under the storm: "He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox" (Ps 29:6). Sirion is paired with Lebanon, the two ranges named together as the high ground that shakes beneath the divine voice.