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|Lehite GN
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|Land, ca. 73 BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/39/3#3 Alma 39:3])
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This GN is surprisingly close to the Phoenician name for Mount Hermon, namely, śiryon ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/deut/3/9#9 Deuteronomy 3:9] and [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ps/29/6#6 Psalms 29:6]), Sirion in KJV (JH, JAT).<ref>Also unusual is the metathesis of the r and n, and the slightly different vowels in the Amorite name for the same mountain, śenīr, KJV Shenir (see [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/deut/3/9#9 Deuteronomy 3:9], and “Senir” in [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ezek/27/5#5 Ezekiel 27:5] and [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_chr/5/23#23 1 Chronicles 5:23]).</ref> If this is the correct derivation, this would also demonstrate Phoenician inflluence among the Lehites/Mulekites (RFS). Notice also the similar biblical word siryon which in [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jer/51/3#3 Jeremiah 51:3] could mean “armour” (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); perhaps related to the name of a place called “the cistern of Sirah” (Hebrew bōr has-sirāh) in [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_sam/3/26#26 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 [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/34/13#13 Isaiah 34:13], “forest, jungle” (luxuriant growth) (RFS).

See also [[Siron Variants]]

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