Original: שֵׂעִיר

Transliteration: Sêʻîyr

Phonetic: say-eer'

Short Definition: Seir

Original: שׂעיר

Transliteration: śê‛ı̂yr

Phonetic: say-eer'

BDB Definition:

Seir = "hairy" or " shaggy"

1. patriarch of the Horites, the inhabitants of Edom before the descendants of Esau, the Edomites (noun proper masculine)
2. the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea (noun proper territorial)
3. a mountain range in Edom extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf (noun proper mountain)
   1. apparently also called 'Mount Seir' and extending most of the distance of the mountain range itself
4. a mountain in northern Judah lying westward from Kirjath-jearim (noun proper mountain)

Origin: formed like H8163

TWOT entry: 2274h,2274g

Part(s) of speech:

Cognate: H8163, H8166, H8167, H8175, H8178, H8181, H8184, H8185, H8188