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title: שִׂרְיֹן — Sirion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׂרְיֹן (8303), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Sirion. BDB 1906: n.pr.mont. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׂרְיֹן

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«שִׂרְיֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sirion** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 8303 · **BDB:** שִׂרְיֹן

### Glosses

Sirion (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sirion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8303/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.mont. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8303/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** \-וֹן n.pr.mont. (in Assyrian Sirara COT Dt 3:9; 1 K 5:13 DlPa 103 f.);—Sidonian name of Ḥermon Dt 3:9 (Σανιωρ); -וֹן ψ 29:6 (+ לְבָנוֹן; van d. H. al. שׂ׳).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׂרְיֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8303/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 29:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.6/)

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וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם כְּמוֹ־עֵ֑גֶל לְבָנ֥וֹן וְ֝שִׂרְיֹ֗ן כְּמ֣וֹ בֶן־רְאֵמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he made.them.leap.about like a.calf Lebanon and Sirion like a.young.one of.wild.oxen

*JPS 1917:* He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

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[Deuteronomy 3:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.9/)

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צִידֹנִ֛ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לְחֶרְמ֖וֹן שִׂרְיֹ֑ן וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י יִקְרְאוּ־ל֖וֹ שְׂנִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].Sidonians they.call (to) Hermon Sirion and the Amorite\[s\] they.call (to) it Senir

*JPS 1917:* which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir —

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