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Strong's #8165: Se`iyr (pronounced say-eer')

formed like 8163; rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine:--Seir.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śê‛ı̂yr

Seir = "hairy" or "shaggy"

1) patriarch of the Horites, the inhabitants of Edom before the descendants of Esau, the Edomites (noun proper masculine)

2) the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea (noun proper territorial)

3) a mountain range in Edom extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf (noun proper mountain)

3a) 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 (noun proper mountain)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: formed like H8163

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2274h, 2274g



Usage:

This word is used 39 times:

Genesis 14:6: "And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness."
Genesis 32:3: "Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom."
Genesis 33:14: "until I come unto my lord unto Seir."
Genesis 33:16: "that day on his way unto Seir."
Genesis 36:8: "Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom."
Genesis 36:9: "the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:"
Genesis 36:20: "These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal,"
Genesis 36:21: "are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom."
Genesis 36:30: "that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir."
Numbers 24:18: "And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel"
Deuteronomy 1:2: "days journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)"
Deuteronomy 1:44: "bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah."
Deuteronomy 2:1: "me: and we compassed mount Seir many days."
Deuteronomy 2:4: "the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:"
Deuteronomy 2:5: "as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau"
Deuteronomy 2:8: "our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain"
Deuteronomy 2:12: "The Horims also dwelt in Seir formerly; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed"
Deuteronomy 2:22: "to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims"
Deuteronomy 2:29: "the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did"
Deuteronomy 33:2: "came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount"
Joshua 11:17: "the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon"
Joshua 12:7: "even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes"
Joshua 15:10: "from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side"
Joshua 24:4: "unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down"
Judges 5:4: "LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom,"
1 Chronicles 1:38: "And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer,"
1 Chronicles 4:42: "men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah,"
2 Chronicles 20:10: "of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel"
2 Chronicles 20:22: "of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten."
2 Chronicles 20:23: "against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants"
2 Chronicles 20:23: "and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another."
2 Chronicles 25:11: "and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand."
2 Chronicles 25:14: "that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself"
Isaiah 21:11: "of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?"
Ezekiel 25:8: "GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah"
Ezekiel 35:2: "thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against"
Ezekiel 35:3: "GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against"
Ezekiel 35:7: "Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from"
Ezekiel 35:15: "will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all"









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