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HebrewH8165Noun

שֵׂעִיר

se.ir

37Occurrences
H8165Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine

formed like H8163 (שָׂעִיר); rough;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Seir = "hairy" or "shaggy" n pr terr 2) the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea n pr mont 3) a mountain range in Edom extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic a) apparently also called 'Mount Seir' and extending most of the distance of the mountain range itself 4) a mountain in northern Judah lying westward from Kirjath-jearim

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

שֵׂעִיר appears 37 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Deuteronomy
10
Genesis
8
2 Chronicles
5
Ezk
5
Joshua
4
1 Chronicles
2
Isaiah
1
Judges
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:38BSB

The sons of Seir:Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

Deuteronomy 1:2BSB

It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Deuteronomy 2:22BSB

just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

Ezk 35:15BSB

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Genesis 36:21BSB

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir in the land of Edom.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.