Seir
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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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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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 (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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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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-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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(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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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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("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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