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Seir in Wikipedia

Seir (Hebrew: שֵׂעִיר, Modern Se'ir Tiberian Śēʻîr, "Rough, hairy"). It is sometimes used as an alternative term for a goat, as in "Seir La'Azazel" (שעיר לעזאזל - Scapegoat). Ancestor of the "dukes of the Horites" in the land of Seir, later Edom (Gen. 36:20-30). Mount Seir, a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the east...

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Seir Scripture - Joshua 24:4

And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt....

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Seir Scripture - Genesis 36:30

Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these [are] the dukes [that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir....

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Seir Scripture - Joshua 15:10

And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:...

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Seir in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A range of hills southwest of the Dead Sea De 1:2 Along the route from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea De 1:1,2 The people of Israel travel by De 1:2; 2:1; 33:2 Originally inhabited by Horites Ge 14:6; 36:20-30; De 2:12 Later inhabited by the descendants of Esau after they destroyed the Horim people De 2:12,22; with Ge 32:3; 33:14,16; 36:8,9; ...

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Seir in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(hairy, Shaggy), 1. We have both "land of Seir," Ge 32:3; 36:50 and "Mount Seir." Ge 14:6 It is the original name of the mountain range extending along the east side of the valley of Arabah, from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic, Golf. The Horites appear to have been the chief of the aboriginal inhabitants, Ge 36:20 but it was ever afterward the ...

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Seir in Easton's Bible Dictionary

rough; hairy. (1.) A Horite; one of the "dukes" of Edom (Gen. 36:20-30). (2.) The name of a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the south-eastern extremity of the Dead Sea to near the Akabah, or the eastern branch of the Red Sea. It was originally occupied by the Horites (Gen. 14...

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Seir in Hitchcock's Bible Names

Seirath...

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Seir in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("hairy, rugged".) 1. Named so from a Horite chief (Genesis 36:20). Or probably Seir was his title, not proper name, given from the rugged rocky nature of the country, or from its abounding in bushes, in contrast to Halak "the smooth mountain." Esau and the Edomite supplanted the previous occupants the Horites. frontHORITES.) Mount Seir is t...

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Seir in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

se'-ir: (1) (har se'-ir, "Mt. Seir" (Gen 14:6, etc.), 'erets se`-ir (Gen 32:3, etc.); to oros Seeir, ge Seeir): In Gen 32:3 "the land of Seir" is equated with "the field of Edom." The Mount and the Land of Seir are alternative appellations of the mountainous tract which runs along the eastern side of the Arabah, occupied by the descendants of ...

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