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Lexicon :: Strong's H8165 - śēʿîr

Aa
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).
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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 BoxGen 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:8 - So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 - And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20 - These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:21 - Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:30 - Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in their order in the land of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 - Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:2 - It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:29 - As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he overcame and put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel overcame on the west side of Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave the land to the tribes of Israel for a heritage, in keeping with their divisions;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:4 - And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:38 - And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42 - And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - And at the first notes of song and praise the Lord sent a surprise attack against the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were overcome.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 - Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:14 - Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11 - The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:2 - Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:3 - And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:7 - And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:15 - You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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