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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Hermon, anathema; devoted to destruction
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Hermon, NY (village, FIPS 34165)
    Location: 44.46838 N, 75.23270 W
    Population (1990): 407 (173 housing units)
    Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 13652

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  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
  

















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