Ba'al Hermon

{{Short description|Titular local deity of Mount Hermon}}

In ancient Canaanite religion, Ba'al Hermon (translated to Lord (Ba'al) of Hermon, meaning consecrated place) was the titular local deity of Mount Hermon.{{cite book |last=Orr |first=James |date=1915 |title=The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia - Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ows9AAAAYAAJ&dq=Ba%27al+Hermon&pg=PA347 |publisher=Howard-Severance Company |page=347 |access-date=August 24, 2015}}

{{cite book |author= Karel van der Toorn |author2=Bob Becking |author3=Pieter Willem van der Horst |date=1999 |title=Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCkRz5pfxz0C&dq=Ba%27al+Hermon&pg=PA145 |publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |page=145 |isbn=0802824919 |access-date=August 24, 2015}}{{cite book |last=Fleming |first=William |date=1838 |title= gazetteer of the Old and New Testaments: to which is added the natural history of the Bible |url=https://archive.org/details/agazetteeroldan01flemgoog |quote=Ba'al Hermon. |publisher=Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/agazetteeroldan01flemgoog/page/n300 251] |access-date=August 25, 2015}} The mountain was inhabited by the Hivites.{{cite book |author1=James Dixon Douglas |author2=Merrill Chapin Tenney |date=2011 |title=Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gg4BifSJH8C&dq=Ba%27al+Hermon&pg=PA151 |publisher=Zondervan |page=151 |isbn=978-0310229834 |access-date=August 24, 2015}}