Word

שֵׂעִיר

Sêʻîyr · H8165 · Hebrew · proper noun · 39 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 places

Seirfirst named in Genesis 14:624 verses
Mount Seirfirst named in Deuteronomy 1:210 verses
Mount Seirfirst named in Joshua 15:101 verse

Person

Seirfirst named in Genesis 36:204 verses

Meanings

Seir

A man regarded as founder of an ethnic group bearing the same name, living in an area also named after him

Examples
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 chiefs descended from the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
1 Chronicles 1:38 The sons of Seir were Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
Seir

Horite clan, named after the man who founded them and bearing the same name as the area they live in; they were later dispossessed by the Edomites and it is not always clear from the context whether it refers to the original Horites or the Edomites

Examples
Numbers 24:18 “And Edom shall be a possession, Seir, its enemies, also will be a possession, While Israel performs valiantly.
2 Chronicles 25:11 Now Amaziah gathered his courage and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck and killed ten thousand of the sons of Seir.
2 Chronicles 25:14 Now after Amaziah came from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir and set them up as his gods. Then he bowed down before them and burned incense to them.
Seir

Mountainous area east of the Jordan valley and south of Moab, first inhabited by the Horites and later by the Edomites

Examples
Genesis 14:6 and the Horites on their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 33:14 “Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, at the pace of the cattle that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
Genesis 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Seir

Mountain; territory of Judah

Examples
Joshua 15:10 The border turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and continued to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is, Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and continued through Timnah.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

הַרmountain 1
חֹרִיwhite bread 1
אֹיֵבenemy 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
אָמַרto say 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 12
מִןfrom 6

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

23 occurrences in 4 groups

הַרmountain 15
בֵּןson 5
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 2
יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Names of People003001007: This domain reflects this name's use for Seir the Horite, the ancestor after whom the region was named, elsewhere in its occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.
Names of Groups003001006: This domain reflects this name's extended use for the Horite inhabitants associated with the region, elsewhere in its occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.
Names of Locations003001010: This proper name identifies Mount Seir and its surrounding hill country, as in Genesis 33:14's account of Esau proceeding at his own pace until he came to his lord at Seir.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8165. Seir שֵׂעִיר proper name Se`îr (= שָׂעִיר, goat ? compare GrayProp.N.94; but note…

H8165. Seir
שֵׂעִיר proper name Se`îr (= שָׂעִיר, goat ? compare GrayProp.N.94; but note play in שֵׂעָר Gen 25:25, שָׂעִר Gen 27:11, Gen 27:23; NöZMG xl (1886). 165; Ency. Bib. ii. 1183 compare proper name, of a mountain (the 'hairy,' i.e. 'well-wooded,' compare trees), proper name, of a people (originally proper name, of a location) ; LagBN 92 thinks ׳שׂ originally proper name, masculine, but land much earlier in OT.; perhaps = Tel Amarna land Šêri, ZimZA vi (1891), 257 JastrJBL xi (1892), 114 WklTel Am. 181, 26 BuhlEdom. 28. f.); —
1 Σηειρ:
a. terr. land of Edom, south of Dead Sea, שׂ ׳אַ֫רְצָה Gen 32:4 (J; || אֱדוֺם שְׂדֵה), compare Gen 36:30 (P); ׳שׂ alone Jdg 5:4 (poem; || id.), Num 24:18 (J E; || אֱדוֺם), Deu 1:44; Deu 2:4, Deu 2:8, Deu 2:12, Deu 2:22, Deu 2:29; Deu 33:2; Jos 11:19 (D), Isa 21:11; 2Ch 20:23 b; with ה locative שֵׂעִ֫ירָה Gen 33:14, Gen 33:16 (J), Jos 12:7 (D).
b. specific
mont. East of Arabah, ׳הַרשֿׂ Jos 24:4 (E), Gen 36:8-9, (P), Deu 1:2; Deu 2:1; Deu 21:5; Eze 35:2-3, Eze 35:7, Eze 35:15; 1Ch 4:42; 2Ch 20:10, 2Ch 20:22, 2Ch 20:23; compare שׂ ׳הַרֲרָם Gen 14:6 (home of הַחֹרִי; on text see BuhlEdom. 28 GunkGn).
c. of a people Eze 25:8 = Edom [van d. H. ׳שׁ]; but strike out ᵐ5B Hi Co Berthol Toy Krae.
d. personified as masculine in ׳בְּנֵישֿׂ (see חֹרִי p. 360; compare Gen 14:6) Gen 36:20 = 1Ch 1:38; Gen 36:21 (P; + אֱדוֺם בְּאֶרֶץ); = Edomites 2Ch 25:11, 2Ch 25:14 (|| אֱדוֺמִים).
2. mont. in Judah, ׳הַרשֿׂ Jos 15:10 (P), Ασσαρ, A Σηειρ, ᵐ5L Σιειρ; Di BuhlG 91 and others compare hill-ruin Sârîs approximately 9 miles west of Jerusalem. (RobBR iii. 156).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Names of Groups4 occurrences Names of People3 occurrences Names of Locations32 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0