שֵׂעִיר
se.ir
Seir
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Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word שֵׂעִיר (se.ir) is a proper name, identified as Seir. It appears 23 times in the Bible. The limited information suggests that Seir refers to a specific individual or a personal name, and does not seem to be associated with a location or an object. Given its function as a proper name, it is possible that Seir is the name of a person of importance in the biblical narrative, but more information is needed to determine the context and significance of this name. As a proper name, Seir is unique to the biblical text and cannot be easily understood outside of its specific usage and cultural context. The frequency of its occurrence (23 times) indicates that Seir is likely a significant figure in the biblical narrative, but further study would be necessary to fully understand the role and significance of this person.
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Occurrences in Scripture
23 total occurrences across the text
Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.
2 Chronicles 25:14Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them.
Isaiah 21:11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
Ezekiel 25:8“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;’
Genesis 14:6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 32:3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Genesis 33:14Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
Genesis 33:16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Genesis 36:8Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36:9This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
Genesis 36:30chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
Numbers 24:18Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.
Deuteronomy 1:44The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
Deuteronomy 2:4Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.
Deuteronomy 2:8So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:12The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 2:22as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.
Deuteronomy 2:29as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
Deuteronomy 33:2He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Joshua 11:17from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.
Joshua 12:7These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua 24:4I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
Judges 5:4“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.