Gerizim, or Gerizim, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Samaria, at the foot of which stood Sichem; so near, that Jotham could be heard by the Schemites from its top, (Judges, ix. 7.) Famous for the temple built on it by Sanballet, in favour of his son-in-law Manasseh, by the permission of Alexander the Great, and 200 years after destroyed by John Hyrcanus, son of Simon, the fourth in succession of the Maccabees (Josephus).