SIRON

Lehite GN

1.

Land near the borders of the Lamanites, ca. 73 BC (Alma 39:3)

Etymology

Given the possibility of Phoenician influence on the Mulekites who first settled the land around ZARAHEMLA, this GN may be identical to the biblically attested Phoenician name for Mount Hermon, namely, שרין śiryôn (Deuteronomy 3:9 and Psalms 29:6), Sirion in KJV (JH, JAT).. Notice also the similar biblical word סרין siryôn which in Jeremiah 46:4 and 51:3 is a type of body armor (JH).

Unlikely are the following suggestions:

A variant spelling of or confusion with Sharon (HEBREW šārōn), a portion of the coastal plain in ISRAEL (JH).

The name of a place called “the cistern of Sirah” (HEBREW bōr has-sirāh) in 2 Samuel 3:26 (JH), possibly Arabic ʿayn sāra(t), a mile and a half NW of Hebron, or ḥirbet sira, SSW of Hebron (JAT).

Biblical seren, “tyrant” (JH).

Biblical sīr, “throne, hook” (JH), but in Isaiah 34:13, “forest, jungle” (luxuriant growth) (RFS).

See also Siron Variants

Variants

Siren

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐝𐐌𐐡𐐊𐐤 (saɪrʌn)

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