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Hermon

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Hermon
Mount. a mountain on the border between Lebanon and SW Syria, in the Anti-Lebanon Range: represented the NE limits of Israeli conquests under Moses and Joshua. Height: 2814 m (9232 ft.)

Hermon 

(also Jabal al-Shaykh), a mountain massif in Syria and Lebanon, forming the distinct southern extension of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The massif measures approximately 40 km in length and rises to a maximum elevation of 2,814 m at Mount al- Shaykh, the highest point in the Anti-Lebanon and Syria. It is composed primarily of limestones and sandstones. Vegetation includes subtropical shrubs and forests.



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We can see the long, whale-backed ridge of Mount Hermon projecting above the eastern hills.
While musing thus, I thought that the grass on Hermon never drank the fresh dews of sunset more gratefully than my feelings drank the bliss of this hour.
Meriones then killed Phereclus the son of Tecton, who was the son of Hermon, a man whose hand was skilled in all manner of cunning workmanship, for Pallas Minerva had dearly loved him.
 
 
 
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