Word

שְׁנִיר

Shᵉnîyr · H8149 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences

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Place

Senirfirst named in Deuteronomy 3:94 verses

Meanings

Senir

Mountain, also known as Hermon, Sion, and Sirion; part of the Anti-Lebanon range; located north-east of Israel

Examples
Deuteronomy 3:9 (Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):
1 Chronicles 5:23 Now the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon they were numerous.
Song of Solomon 4:8 “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, You shall come with me from Lebanon. You shall come down from the summit of Amana, From the summit of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 1
עַדto, as far as, until 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

חֶרְמוֹן Chermôwn · H2768 · Hermon: Senir (שְׁנִיר) is attested as an alternate name for Mount Hermon, or for a peak/part of the Hermon range. Deuteronomy 3:9 explicitly identifies Senir as the Amorite name for Hermon, making these genuine alternate designations for the same geographical referent.
שִׁרְיוֹן Shiryôwn · H8303 · Sirion: Sirion (שִׂרְיֹן) is identified in Deuteronomy 3:9 as the Sidonian name for Mount Hermon, while Senir is the Amorite name for the same mountain. These are alternate ethnic designations for the same geographical feature.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Landforms003001008: This proper name identifies Senir, the Amorite name for Mount Hermon, as noted in Deuteronomy 3:9.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8149. Shenir or Senir שְׂנִיר proper name, of a mountain Σανειρ: Amorite name of Hermon…

H8149. Shenir
or Senir שְׂנִיר proper name, of a mountain Σανειρ: Amorite name of Hermon Deu 3:9, whence came cypress-trees Eze 27:5, probably northern peak(s) of Hermon 1Ch 5:23; Son 4:8 (where + חֶרְמוֺן); so Arabic Abulfed. Par. 68, Syriac , Ecclus 24:13 al., Assyrian Saniru COTDeu 3:9 DlPa 104. See also DrDeu 3:9 BuhlGeogr. 110 f. and references [van d. H. erroneous ׳שׁ Deuteronomy Cant].
שׂעף (√ of following; Thes and others identification with סעף divide (q. v.), whence following as branching out, involved; BaES 56 compare strike the () pericardium, be disquieted by a thing).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Landforms4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0