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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)
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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

H8165

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Hori in their Mount Se`ir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Ya`akov sent messengers in front of him to Esav, his brother, to the land of Se`ir, the field of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Se`ir."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So Esav returned that day on his way to Se`ir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:8 - Esav lived in the hill country of Se`ir. Esav is Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 - This is the history of the generations of Esav the father of the Edom in the hill country of Se`ir:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20 - These are the sons of Se`ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shoval, Tziv`on, `Anah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:21 - Dishon, Etzer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Hori, the children of Se`ir in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:30 - chief Dishon, chief Etzer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Hori, according to their chiefs in the land of Se`ir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 - Edom shall be a possession, Se`ir also shall be a possession, who were his enemies; While Yisra'el does valiantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:2 - It is eleven days' journey from Horev by the way of Mount Se`ir to Kadesh-Barnea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - The Amori, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se`ir, even to Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf, as the LORD spoke to me; and we compassed Mount Se`ir many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Se`ir to Esav for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, from the way of the `Aravah from Elat and from `Etzyon-Gever. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Mo'av.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - The Hori also lived in Se`ir before, but the children of Esav succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Yisra'el did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - as he did for the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, when he destroyed the Hori from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:29 - as the children of Esav who dwell in Se`ir, and the Mo`avim who dwell in `Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Yarden into the land which the LORD our God gives us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - He said, The LORD came from Sinai, Rose from Se`ir to them; He shined forth from Mount Paran, He came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak, that goes up to Se`ir, even to Ba`al-Gad in the valley of Levanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - These are the kings of the land whom Yehoshua and the children of Yisra'el struck beyond the Yarden westward, from Ba`al-Gad in the valley of Levanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Se`ir; and Yehoshua gave it to the tribes of Yisra'el for a possession according to their divisions;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - and the border turned about from Ba`alah westward to Mount Se`ir, and passed along to the side of Mount Ye`arim on the north (the same is Kesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:4 - I gave to Yitzchak Ya`akov and Esav: and I gave to Esav Mount Se`ir, to possess it: and Ya`akov and his children went down into Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - LORD, when you went forth out of Se`ir, When you marched out of the field of Edom, The eretz trembled, the sky also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:38 - The sons of Se`ir: Lotan, and Shoval, and Tziv`on, and `Anah, and Dishon, and Etzer, and Dishan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42 - Some of them, even of the sons of Shim`on, five hundred men, went to Mount Se`ir, having for their captains Pelatyah, and Ne`aryah, and Refayah, and `Uzzi'el, the sons of Yish`i.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - Now, behold, the children of `Ammon and Mo'av and Mount Se`ir, whom you would not let Yisra'el invade, when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - When they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set liers-in-wait against the children of `Ammon, Mo'av, and Mount Se`ir, who had come against Yehudah; and they were struck.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the children of `Ammon and Mo'av stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Se`ir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se`ir, everyone helped to destroy another.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 - Amatzyah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of Se`ir ten thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:14 - Now it happened, after that Amatzyah was come from the slaughter of the Edom, that he brought the gods of the children of Se`ir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11 - The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Se`ir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Mo'av and Se`ir say, Behold, the house of Yehudah is like all the nations;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:2 - Son of man, set your face against Mount Se`ir, and prophesy against it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - and tell it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Se`ir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - Thus will I make Mount Se`ir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Yisra'el, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Se`ir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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