International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Baal-Hermon

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Baal-Hermon


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bā´al-hûr´mon (בּעל חרמון, ba‛al ḥermōn; Βαὰλ Ἐρμών, Baál Ermō̇n): Baalgad under Mount Hermon is described as “toward the sunrising” in . If Mount Lebanon proper is here intended the reading may be taken as correct. But in Baal-gad is replaced by Baal-hermon. One or the other must be due to a scribal error. The Baal-hermon of lay somewhere East of the Jordan, near to Mount Hermon. It may possibly be identical with Bāniās.