Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s AT rad.com>]

> But instead of looking randomly through the Bible, why not instead look at 
> how the word XRM is used
> immediately before and after the two specific Bible verses to which Yigal 
> Levin called our attention at the beginning of this thread,
> which are the only two verses in the Bible that reference Baal-Hermon:

I have a related idea. Why not look at Joshua 11:16 which is parallel to 
Judges 3:3 ?

There instead of "Baal-Hermon"  we have "Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon 
which is under mount Hermon".

So perhaps "Baal-Hermon" is the result of a lacuna in the text of Judges ?

Yaakov (J) Stein