ANTI-LEBANON ăn’ tə lĕb’ ă nŏn לְּבָנﯴנ׃֙; LXX Σανἰρ; ̓Αντιλίβανος; Vul. Anti-Libanus; white). A mountain range E of the Lebanon range itself and roughly equal to it in length and height. The southernmost peak is Mt. Hermon rising to over 9,000 ft. Scriptural terms are Sirion (Ps 29:6), S(h)enir (Deut 3:9) and “Lebanon toward the sunrising” (Josh 13:5). However, Lebanon by itself may designate both ranges or even Anti-Lebanon by itself and sometimes Senir does not include Mt. Hermon (1 Chron 5:23; Song of Solomon 4:8). The Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges provide the major source for the Jordan and other rivers. See Lebanon.

Bibliography HGHL (1931²⁵), passim; GTT (1959), passim.