Hermon
   a peak, the eastern prolongation of the Anti-Lebanon range,
   reaching to the height of about 9,200 feet above the
   Mediterranean. It marks the north boundary of Palestine (Deut.
   3:8, 4:48; Josh. 11:3, 17; 13:11; 12:1), and is seen from a
   great distance. It is about 40 miles north of the Sea of
   Galilee. It is called "the Hermonites" (Ps. 42:6) because it has
   more than one summit. The Sidonians called it Sirion, and the
   Amorites Shenir (Deut. 3:9; Cant. 4:8). It is also called
   Baal-hermon (Judg. 3:3; 1 Chr. 5:23) and Sion (Deut. 4:48).
   There is every probability that one of its three summits was the
   scene of the transfiguration (q.v.). The "dew of Hermon" is
   referred to (Ps. 89: 12). Its modern name is Jebel-esh-Sheikh,
   "the chief mountain." It is one of the most conspicuous
   mountains in Palestine or Syria. "In whatever part of Palestine
   the Israelite turned his eye northward, Hermon was there,
   terminating the view. From the plain along the coast, from the
   Jordan valley, from the heights of Moab and Gilead, from the
   plateau of Bashan, the pale, blue, snow-capped cone forms the
   one feature in the northern horizon."
   
     Our Lord and his disciples climbed this "high mountain apart"
   one day, and remained on its summit all night, "weary after
   their long and toilsome ascent." During the night "he was
   transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun."
   The next day they descended to Caesarea Philippi.
   

Hermon, anathema; devoted to destruction

Hermon, NY -- U.S. village in New York
   Population (2000):    402
   Housing Units (2000): 161
   Land area (2000):     0.377840 sq. miles (0.978601 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.377840 sq. miles (0.978601 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            34165
   Located within:       New York (NY), FIPS 36
   Location:             44.466873 N, 75.229274 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     13652
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Hermon, NY
    Hermon