Seir - שֵׂעִיר "Rough; hairy", Standard Hebrew Seʿir, Tiberian Hebrew Śēʿîr. It is sometimes used as a alternative term for a goat, as in "Seir La'Azazel" שעיר לעזאזל - Scapegoat.
- A Horite; one of the "dukes" of Edom (Gen. 36:20-30). After whom a southern mountain land was named whence The Lord is said to rise up from.
- The name of a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the south-eastern extremity of the Dead Sea to near the Akabah, or the eastern branch of the Red Sea. It was originally occupied by the Horites (Gen. 14:6), who were afterwards driven out by the Edomites (Gen. 32:3; 33:14, 16). It was allotted to the descendants of Esau (Deut. 2:4, 22; Josh. 24:4; 2 Chr. 20:10; Isa. 21:11; Exek. 25:8).
- A mountain range (not the Edomite range, Gen. 32:3) lying between the Wady Aly and the Wady Ghurab (Josh. 15:10).
This article incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
