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Strong's #8165 - שֵׂעִיר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- Seir = "hairy" or "shaggy"
- n pr m
- patriarch of the Horites, the inhabitants of Edom before the descendants of Esau, the Edomites
- n pr terr
- the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea n pr mont
- a mountain range in Edom extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf
- apparently also called ´Mount Seir´ and extending most of the distance of the mountain range itself
- a mountain in northern Judah lying westward from Kirjath-jearim
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(the 'hairy,' i.e. 'well-wooded,' compare 
trees), proper name, of a people (originally proper name, of a location) 
; Lag BN 92 thinks ׳שׂ originally proper name, masculine, but land much earlier in OT.; perhaps = Tel Amarna land Šêri, Zim ZA vi (1891), 257 Jastr JBL xi (1892), 114 Wkl Tel Amos 181,26 Buhl Edom. 28. f.); — 1 Σηειρ:
a. terr. 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
mont. 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 Buhl Edom. 28 Gunk Gn).
c. of a people Ezekiel 25:8 = Edom [van d. H. ׳שׁ]; but strike out ᵐ5 B Hi Co Berthol Toy Krae.
d. personified as masculine in ׳בְּנֵישֿׂ (see חֹרִי p. 360; 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. mont. in Judah, ׳הַרשֿׂ Joshua 15:10 (P), Ασσαρ, A Σηειρ, ᵐ5 L Σιειρ; Di Buhl G 91 and others compare hill-ruin Sârîs approximately 9 miles west of Jerusalem. (Rob BR iii. 156).
שֵׂעִיר (“hairy,” “rough”), [Seir], pr.n.
(1) of a leader of the Horites, Genesis 36:20, 30 Genesis 36:30.
(2) of a mountainous region of the Edomites, extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic gulf, the northern part of which is now called Jebâl (see גְּבָל ), the southern el-Shera (الشراة), see Burckhardt’s Travels in Syria, ed. Weimar, p. 674, 688, 1067. Originally the Horites (חוֹרִים) dwelt in this region, Genesis 14:6; Deuteronomy 2:12 afterwards Esau, Genesis 32:4, 33:14, 16 Genesis 33:16, and his descendants, Deuteronomy 2:4, seqq.; 2 Chronicles 20:10. This mountain may have taken its name from that Horite (No. 1); but I prefer rendering שֵׂעִיר as an appellative, the rough mountain, i.e. clothed, and, as it were, bristled with trees and thick woods; compare Gr. λάσιος.
(3) of a mountain in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:10.
