Seir @ rough; hairy. (1.) A Horite; one of the "dukes" of Edom Genesis:36:20-30). (2.) 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 Genesis:14:6), who were afterwards driven out by the Edomites Genesis:32:3Genesis:33:14-16). It was allotted to the descendants of Esau Deuteronomy:2:4Deuteronomy:2:22Joshua:24:4; 2Chronicals:20:10; Isaiah:21:11; Exek. 25:8). (3.) A mountain range (not the Edomite range, Genesis:32:3) lying between the Wady Aly and the Wady Ghurab Joshua:15:10).
Seirath @ woody district; shaggy, a place among the mountains of Ephraim, bordering on Benjamin, to which Ehud fled after he had assassinated Eglon at Jericho Judges:3:26-27).
SEIR @ - (hairy, Shaggy), We have both "land of Seir," Genesis:32:3Genesis:36:50) and "Mount Seir." Genesis:14:6) It is the original name of the mountain range extending along the east side of the valley of Arabah, from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic, Golf. The Horites appear to have been the chief of the aboriginal inhabitants, Genesis:36:20) but it was ever afterward the possession of the Edomites, the descendants of Esau. The Mount Seir of the: Bible extended much farther south than the modern province, as is shown by the words of (2:1-8) It had the Arabah on the west, vs. 1 and 8; it extended as far south as the head of the Gulf of Akabah, ver. 8; its eastern border ran along the base of the mountain range where the plateau of Arabia begins. Its northern, order is not so accurately determined. There is a line of "naked" white hills or cliffs which run across the great valley about eight miles south of the Dead Sea, the highest eminence being Mount Hor, which Isaiah:4800 feet high. Mount Seir, an entirely different place from the foregoing; one of the landmarks on the north boundary of the territory of Judah. Joshua:15:10) only. It lay westward of Kirjath-jearim, and between it and Beth-shemesh. If Kuriel el-Enab be the former and Ain-shems the latter of these two, then Mount Seir cannot fail to be the ridge which lies between the Wady Aly and the Wady Ghurab . In a pass of this ridge is the modern village of Seir.
SEIRATH@ - (the shaggy), the place to which Ehud fled after his murder of Eglon. Judges:3:26-27) It was in "Mount Ephraim," ver. 27, a continuation, perhaps, of the same wooded, shaggy hills which stretched even so far south as to enter the territory of Judah, Joshua:15:10) (It is probably the same place as MOUNT, MOUNT, MOUNTAIN SEIR, 2.)
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