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Baalhermon

also known as: Baal-Hermon

Hebrew: בַּ֫עַל

also known as: Baalhermon

Meaning: lord of Hermon.

1. Baalhermon (Baal-Hermon), a mountain center of idolatrous Baal worship

   also known as: Baal Chermon

   mountain east of Lebanon where the false god Baal was worshipped.

   Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath. —Judges 3:3 KJV

   And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon. —1 Chronicles 5:23 KJV

   Baal-Hermon is probably the same as Mount Hermon, or more likely one of its peaks.

2. Baal-hermon, a city near Mount Hermon

   This is probably identical with Baal-Gad (Joshua 11:17).

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