Baal-Hermon
Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]
Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.
Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Baal-Hermon'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/baal-hermon.html. 1897.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
Judges 3:3 1 Chronicles 5:23
Hitchcock's Bible Names [3]
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
BAAL-HERMON ( Judges 3:3 , 1 Chronicles 5:23 ). See Hermon.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
bā´al -hûr´mon ( בּעל חרמון , , Baál Ermō̇n ): Baalgad under Mount Hermon is described as "toward the sunrising" in Joshua 13:5 . If Mount Lebanon proper is here intended the reading may be taken as correct. But in Judges 3:3 Baal-gad is replaced by Baal-hermon. One or the other must be due to a scribal error. The Baal-hermon of 1 Chronicles 5:23 lay somewhere East of the Jordan, near to Mount Hermon. It may possibly be identical with Bāniās .
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [6]
Ba´al-Her´mon ( 1 Chronicles 5:23; Judges 3:3), it seems to have been a place in or near Mount Hermon, and not far from Baal-gad, if it was not, as some suppose, the same place.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [7]
(Hebrews Ba'al Chermon', חֶרמוֹן בִּעִל, lord of Hermon), the name of a city and a hill adjoining.
1. (Sept. makes two names, Βαὰλ Ε᾿ρμών .) A to- n not far from Mount Hermon, mentioned as inhabited by the Ephraimites in connection with Bashan and Senir ( 1 Chronicles 5:23). It was probably the same with the BAAL-GAD (See Baal-Gad) (q.v.) of Joshua 11:17 (Robinson, Researches, new ed. 3, 409).
2. (Sept. translates ὄρος τοῦ Ἀερμών , Mount Hermon.) A mountain ( הִר ) east of Lebanon, from which the Israelites were unable to expel the Hivites ( Judges 3:3). This is usually considered as a distinct place from Mount Hermon; but the only apparent ground for doing so is the statement in 1 Chronicles 5:23, "unto Baal-hermon, and Senir, and [unto] Mount Hermon;" but it is quite possible that the conjunction "and" may be here, as elsewhere, used as an expletive — "unto Baal-hermon, even Senir, even Mount Hermen." Perhaps this derives some color from the fact, which we know, that this mountain had at least three names ( Deuteronomy 3:9). May not Baal-hermon have been a fourth, in use among the Phoenician worshippers of Baal, one of whose sanctuaries, Baal-gad, was at the foot of this very mountain? (See Baalim).
References
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from Holman Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from Hitchcock's Bible Names
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature
- ↑ Baal-Hermon from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature