Senir

Senir is a mountain named in 4 verses of the Bible. It is most likely another name for Mount Hermon (high confidence).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Verses

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 3:9
  (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 5:23
  And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal–hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon).

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 4:8
  Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 27:5
  They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.