Hermon
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(a mountain’s projecting summit) (Deut. 3:8; Josh. 12:1) — the name of a lofty mountain in the chain of the Anti-Lebanon range, to the northeast of Palestine. At present it is called Jebel esh-Sheikh, and rises to about 10,000 English feet, so that it is visible from a great distance, even from the Jordan valley near the Dead Sea. It has, properly speaking, three principal summits, always covered with snow — not only in winter but even in summer — so that while the whole land lies scorched by the sun, white lines of snow gird the summit of Hermon.
The Sidonians called it Sirion, and the Ammonites Senir; it was also called Sion (Deut. 3:9; 4:48). This mountain is mentioned repeatedly in the Old Testament, and twice, as some suppose, under the name Baal-hermon (Judg. 3:3; 1 Chron. 5:23), though this has not yet been confirmed. More recent writers sometimes speak of a “Little Hermon,” by which they mean a mountain situated near Tabor. This supposition evidently arose from a wish to explain such passages of Holy Scripture as Ps. 42:6 [41:7]; 89:12 [88:13]; 133:3 [132:3], but it rests on no adequate foundation, nor is it in fact necessary.