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(×”×œÖ¼×‘× ×•×Ÿ מגדּל, mighdal ha-lebhaÌ„noÌ„n): ()): The designation “which looketh toward Damascus†compels us to identify it with some portion of, or something in, the eastern range of “Lebanon, toward the sun-rising†(). It would then of necessity correspond to the chief summit of Hermon, on which there has been from ancient times also a tower-like temple, and from which the view is almost of boundless extent, Damascus with its gardens and groves being surprisingly near and appearing like a beautiful island in a wide extended sea. See LEBANON.