BIBLE DICTIONARY SEIR
Shaggy.
(1) The Horite (Gen. 36: 20-21; 1 Chr. 1: 38).
(2) Mount Seir, or land of Seir; the mountain ridge that ran south from the Dead Sea through the land of Edom; originally inhabited by Horites (Gen. 14: 6); Esaus possession (Gen. 36: 8-9, 30; Deut. 2: 5; Josh. 24: 4); passed through by Jacob (Gen 32: 3; Gen. 33: 14, 16); by the Israelites (Deut. 1: 44; Deut. 2: 1; 2 Chr. 20: 10; see also Isa. 21: 11; Ezek. 25: 8; 35).
(3) Another Mount Seir, between Kirjath-jearim and Bethshemesh (Josh. 15: 10).
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