Lexicon :: Strong's H8165 - śēʿîr

and the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as El-paran by the wilderness.

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

“Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.

These are the sons of Seir the Horite,

the inhabitants of the land:

Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan.

These are the chiefs among the Horites,

clan by clan,[fn] in the land of Seir.

Edom will become a possession;

Seir will become a possession of its enemies,

but Israel will be triumphant.

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

“Then the Amorites who lived there came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir as far as Hormah.

“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.

“Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so be very careful.

“So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber. We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.

The Horites had previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out, destroying them completely[fn] and settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land of its possession the LORD gave them.

This was just as he had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them; they drove them out and have lived in their place until now.

“just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.’

He said:

The LORD came from Sinai

and appeared to them from Seir;

he shone on them from Mount Paran

and came with ten thousand holy ones,[fn]

with lightning[fn] from his right hand[fn] for them.

from Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.

Joshua and the Israelites struck down the following kings of the land beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends toward Seir (Joshua gave their land as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments:

The border turned westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, went to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), descended to Beth-shemesh, and proceeded to Timnah.

“and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession.

“ ‘Jacob and his sons, however, went down to Egypt.

LORD, when you came from Seir,

when you marched from the fields of Edom,

the earth trembled,

the skies poured rain,

and the clouds poured water.

Seir’s sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

Now five hundred men from these sons of Simeon went with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the descendants of Ishi, as their leaders to Mount Seir.

Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir. You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set an ambush against the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir who came to fight against Judah, and they were defeated.

Amaziah strengthened his position and led his people to the Salt Valley. He struck down ten thousand Seirites,[fn]

After Amaziah came from the attack on the Edomites, he brought the gods of the Seirites and set them up as his gods. He worshiped before them and burned incense to them.

A pronouncement concerning Dumah:[fn]

One calls to me from Seir,

“Watchman, what is left of the night?

Watchman, what is left of the night? ”

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations.”

“Son of man, face Mount Seir and prophesy against it.

“I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

“Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, I will deal the same way with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’