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Strong's #2752: Choriy (pronounced kho-ree')

from 2356; cave-dweller or troglodyte; a Chorite or aboriginal Idumaean:--Horims, Horites.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chôrı̂y

Horite = "cave dweller"

1) the inhabitants of Mount Seir

2) the inhabitants of Edom (in later times)

Part of Speech: noun patrial masculine

Relation: from H2356



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Genesis 14:6: " And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness."
Genesis 36:20: "are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal,"
Genesis 36:21: "and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom."
Genesis 36:29: "are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke"
Deuteronomy 2:12: " The Horims also dwelt in Seir formerly; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed"
Deuteronomy 2:22: "when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt"









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