SIRON

SIRON

Lehite GN		Land, ca. 73 BC (Alma 39:3)

This GN is surprisingly close to the Phoenician name for Mount Hermon, namely, śiryon (Deuteronomy 3:9 and Psalms 29:6), Sirion in KJV (JH, JAT).117 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 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 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).

117 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 Deuteronomy 3:9, 
and “Senir” in Ezekiel 27:5 and 1 Chronicles 5:23).