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Strong's #8149: Shniyr (pronounced shen-eer')

or Sniyr {sen-eer'}; from an unused root meaning to be pointed; peak; Shenir or Senir, a summit of Lebanon:--Senir, Shenir.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׂ / ׁ

shenı̂yr / śenı̂yr

Senir or Shenir = "snow mountain"

1) the Amorite name for Mount Hermon

Part of Speech: noun proper mountain

Relation: from an unused root meaning to be pointed



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Deuteronomy 3:9: "Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)"
1 Chronicles 5:23: "from Bashan unto Baalath-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon."
Song of Solomon 4:8: "me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir"
Ezekiel 27:5: "all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon"









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