seir · Seir

What it means

seir (שֵׂעִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Seir”.

The hill country south of the Dead Sea, later the land of Edom; also its first inhabitants, and a mountain in Judah.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×10
• Joshua×4
• Judges×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Genesis 14:6

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

• Genesis 32:3

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

• Genesis 33:14

  Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that is ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

• Genesis 33:16

  So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

• Genesis 36:8

  So Esau dwelt in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

• Genesis 36:9

  These are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.

• Genesis 36:20

  These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

• Genesis 36:21

  Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chieftains of the Horites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.

• Genesis 36:30

  the chieftain Dishon, the chieftain Ezer, the chieftain Dishan. These are the chieftains of the Horites, according to their clans, in the land of Seir.

• Numbers 24:18

  And Edom shall be a possession, and Seir, his enemies, shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

• Deuteronomy 1:2

  It is eleven days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

• Deuteronomy 1:44

  Then the Amorite who lived in that hill country came out to meet you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you in Seir as far as Hormah.

• Deuteronomy 2:1

  Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds, as YHWH had spoken to me, and we went around Mount Seir many days.

• Deuteronomy 2:4

  And command the people, saying, ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, and they will be afraid of you. So guard yourselves carefully:

• Deuteronomy 2:5

  do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even the treading of the sole of a foot, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:8

  So we passed by, away from our brothers, the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

• Deuteronomy 2:12

  In Seir the Horites lived formerly, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and lived in their place, just as Israel did to the land of its possession, which YHWH gave them.)

• Deuteronomy 2:22

  just as he did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horite from before them; they dispossessed them and have lived in their place to this day.

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan into the land that YHWH our Elohim is giving us.”

• Deuteronomy 33:2

  And he said, “YHWH came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of holy ones; at his right hand a fire of law for them.

• Joshua 11:17

  from Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And all their kings he took and struck them and put them to death.

• Joshua 12:7

  And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

• Joshua 15:10

  and the border turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along to Timnah;

• Joshua 24:4

  And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau Mount Seir to take possession of it, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

• Judges 5:4

  YHWH, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dripped, the clouds also dripped water.

• 1 Chronicles 1:38

  And the sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

• 1 Chronicles 4:42

  And some of them, of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir; and Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were at their head.

• 2 Chronicles 20:10

  And now, look, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, among whom you did not let Israel come when they came from the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them and did not destroy them

• 2 Chronicles 20:22

  And at the time they began with shouts of joy and praise, YHWH set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who were coming against Judah; and they were struck down.

• 2 Chronicles 20:23

  The sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, to devote them to destruction and to destroy them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped each to destroy his fellow.

• 2 Chronicles 25:11

  Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck the sons of Seir, ten thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 25:14

  And it happened, after Amaziah came from striking the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and set them up for himself as gods; and before them he would bow down, and to them he would burn incense.

• Isaiah 21:11

  The burden of Dumah. One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

• Ezekiel 25:8

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because Moab and Seir say, “Look, like all the nations is the house of Judah,”

• Ezekiel 35:2

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

• Ezekiel 35:3

  and say to it, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a horror.

• Ezekiel 35:7

  And I will make Mount Seir a devastation and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who goes and the one who returns.

• Ezekiel 35:15

  As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you: a desolation you will be, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it; and they will know that I am YHWH.’”

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