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Lexicon :: Strong's H8165 - śēʿîr

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שֵׂעִיר
Transliteration
śēʿîr
Pronunciation
say-eer'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun, proper noun with reference to a mountain, proper noun with reference to territory
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2274h,2274g

Strong’s Definitions

שֵׂעִיר Sêʻîyr, say-eer'; formed like H8163; rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine:—Seir.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H8165 in the following manner: Seir (39x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H8165 in the following manner: Seir (39x).
  1. Seir = "hairy" or "shaggy"

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

      proper noun with reference to territory
    2. the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea

      proper noun with reference to a mountain
    3. a mountain range in Edom extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf

      1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֵׂעִיר Sêʻîyr, say-eer'; formed like H8163; rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine:—Seir.
STRONGS H8165: Abbreviations
שֵׂעִיר proper name Se`îr (= שָׂעִיר, goat ? compare GrayProp. N. 94; but note play in שֵׂעָר Genesis 25:25, שָׂעִר Genesis 27:11, 23; NöZMG xl (1886). 165; Ency. Bib. ii. 1183 compare proper name, of a mountain bdb097301 (the 'hairy,' i.e. 'well-wooded,' compare bdb097302 trees), proper name, of a people (originally proper name, of a location) bdb097303; LagBN 92 thinks שׂ׳ originally proper name, masculine, but land much earlier in OT.; perhaps = Tel Amarna land Šêri, ZimZA vi (1891), 257 JastrJBL xi (1892), 114 WklTel Am. 181, 26 BuhlEdom. 28. f.); —
1. Σηειρ:
a. territory. land of Edom, south of Dead Sea, אַ֫רְצָה שׂ׳ Genesis 32:4 (J; || שְׂדֵה אֱדוֺם), compare Genesis 36:30 (P); שׂ׳ alone Judges 5:4 (poem; || id.), Numbers 24:18 (J E; || אֱדוֺם), Deuteronomy 1:44; Deuteronomy 2:4, 8, 12, 22, 29; Deuteronomy 33:2; Joshua 11:19 (D), Isaiah 21:11; 2 Chronicles 20:23 b; with ה locative שֵׂעִ֫ירָה Genesis 33:14, 16 (J), Joshua 12:7 (D).
b. specific mountain East of Arabah, הַרשֿׂ׳ Joshua 24:4 (E), Genesis 36:8, 9 (P), Deuteronomy 1:2; Deuteronomy 2:1; Deuteronomy 21:5; Ezekiel 35:2, 3, 7, 15; 1 Chronicles 4:42; 2 Chronicles 20:10, 22, 23; compare הַרֲרָם שׂ׳ Genesis 14:6 (home of הַחֹרִי; on text see BuhlEdom. 28 GunkGn).
c. of a people Ezekiel 25:8 = Edom [van d. H. שׁ׳]; but strike out Greek Version of the LXXB Hi Co Berthol Toy Krae.
d. personified as masculine in בְּנֵישֿׂ׳ (see חֹרִי; compare Genesis 14:6) Genesis 36:20 = 1 Chronicles 1:38; Genesis 36:21 (P; + בְּאֶרֶץ אֱדוֺם); = Edomites 2 Chronicles 25:11, 14 (|| אֱדוֺמִים).
2. mountain in Judah, הַרשֿׂ׳ Joshua 15:10 (P), Ασσαρ, A Σηειρ, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Σιειρ; Di BuhlG 91 and others compare hill-ruin Sârîs approximately 9 miles west of Jerusalem. (RobBR iii. 156).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:6; 14:6; 25:25; 27:11; 27:23; 32:4; 33:14; 33:16; 36:8; 36:9; 36:20; 36:21; 36:30

Numbers

24:18

Deuteronomy

1:2; 1:44; 2:1; 2:4; 2:8; 2:12; 2:22; 2:29; 21:5; 33:2

Joshua

11:19; 12:7; 15:10; 24:4

Judges

5:4

1 Chronicles

1:38; 4:42

2 Chronicles

20:10; 20:22; 20:23; 20:23; 25:11; 25:14

Isaiah

21:11

Ezekiel

25:8; 35:2; 35:3; 35:7; 35:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8165 matches the Hebrew שֵׂעִיר (śēʿîr),
which occurs 39 times in 38 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites in their mountainous country of Seir, as far as El-paran, which is on the border of the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 -

Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - “Please let my lord go on ahead of his servant, and I will move on slowly, governed by the pace of the livestock that are in front of me and according to the endurance of the children, [fn]until I come to my lord in Seir [in Edom].”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So Esau turned back [toward the south] that day on his way to Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:8 - So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 -

These are the records of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20 -

These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:21 - Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:30 - Dishon, Ezer, Dishan. These are the Horite chiefs, according to their various clans in the land of Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 -

“Edom shall be [taken as] a possession,

[Mount] Seir, Israel’s enemies, also will be a possession,

While Israel performs valiantly.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:2 - It is [only] eleven days’ journey from Horeb (Mount Sinai) by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea [on Canaan’s border; yet Israel [fn]wandered in the wilderness for forty years before crossing the border and entering Canaan, the promised land].
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - “Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 -

“Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, just as the LORD had told me; and we circled Mount Seir for many days.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - and command the people, saying, “You are passing through the territory of your brothers the sons of Esau (the Edomites), who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as little as a footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 -

“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who lived in Seir, away from the Arabah (wilderness) road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. Then we turned and passed through by the way of the Wilderness of Moab.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - The Horites also used to live in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them. They destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land which the LORD gave them as their possession.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - just as He did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and the sons of Esau (the Edomites) dispossessed them and settled in their place [and remain there] even to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:29 - just as the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, [fn]did for me, until I cross the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God is giving us.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - He said,

“The LORD came from Sinai,

And dawned on them from Seir;

He shone forth from Mount Paran,

And He came from among ten thousand holy ones;

At His right hand was a [fn]flaming fire, a law, for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir [in the south], even as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon [in the north]. He captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 -

These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - The border went around west from Baalah to Mount Seir, and passed along to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and then continued on through Timnah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:4 - ‘To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave [the hill country of] Mount Seir to possess; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 -

“LORD, when You went out from Seir,

When You marched from the field of Edom,

The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,

Yes, the clouds dripped water.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:38 - The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42 - From them, from the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to Mount Seir, with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, as their leaders.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - “Now behold, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You would not allow Israel to invade when they came from the land of Egypt (for they turned away from them and did not destroy them),
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - When they began singing and praising, the LORD set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were struck down [in defeat].
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the sons of Ammon and Moab [suspecting betrayal] rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, completely destroying them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 -

Now Amaziah took courage and led his people out to the Valley of Salt, and he struck down 10,000 of the men of Seir (Edom).

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:14 -

After Amaziah came back from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, bowed before them, and burned incense to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11 -

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Dumah (Edom):

Someone keeps calling to me from Seir (Edom),

“Watchman, what is left of the night [of Assyrian oppression]?

Watchman, what is left of the night? [How long until morning?]

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 -

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because [fn]Moab and Seir (Edom) say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the [pagan] nations,’

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:2 - “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir (Edom), and prophesy against it
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,

“Behold, Mount Seir, I am against you,

And I will stretch out My hand against you

And make you completely desolate.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - “I will make Mount Seir (Edom) a ruin and a desolate wasteland and I will cut off from it the one who passes through it and the one who returns.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - “As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you; you will be a desolate waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.”’
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