<strong>SIRION</strong> (sĭr'ĭ-ŏn, Heb. <em>siryôn, coat of mail</em>). A name given to Mount Hermon by the Zidonians (<bibleref ref="Deut.3.9">Deut.3.9</bibleref>).<br /><br />

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<strong>SIRION</strong> <strong>sĭr’ ĭ ən</strong> (<span class="hebrew">שִׂרְיֹ֑ן</span>). The Sidonian (Phoen.) name for Mount Hermon (<bibleref ref="Deut.3.9">Deut 3:9</bibleref>). It occurs in association with Lebanon in the poetic parallelism of <bibleref ref="Ps.29.6">Psalm 29:6</bibleref>.<br /><br />

He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,<br /><br />

And Sirion like a young wild ox.<br /><br />

The same association occurs in the Ugaritic material.<br /><br />

Lebanon and its trees,<br /><br />

Sirion, the most precious of its cedars.<br /><br />

(Baal and Anath VI 20, 21)<br /><br />

The occurrence of the term in parallelism with the Lebanon range suggests that it was denominative of the whole Anti-Lebanon chain. (<em>See also</em> [[Sion]].)<br /><br />

<h2>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)</h2>

The name of Mt. Hermon among the Phoenicians (<bibleref ref="Deut.3.9">De 3:9</bibleref>). It is given as "Shirion" in <bibleref ref="Ps.29.6">Ps 29:6</bibleref> (Hebrew "breastplate" or "body armor"). Here it is named with Lebanon. Sirion therefore probably did not denote a particular part of the Hermon Range, as did Senir, but may have been suggested by the conformation of the range itself, as seen from the heights above the Phoenician coast.