H8165

שעיר

שעיר
shaiyar

Proper masculine noun, proper noun with reference to a mountain, proper noun with reference to territory · Formed like שעיר (H8163)

Formed like H8163; rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine:—Seir.

Outline

  1. Seir = "hairy" or "shaggy"
  2. proper masculine noun
    1. patriarch of the Horites, the inhabitants of Edom before the descendants of Esau, the Edomites
    2. proper noun with reference to territory
    3. the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea
    4. proper noun with reference to a mountain
    5. a mountain range in Edom extending from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf
      1. apparently also called 'Mount Seir' and extending most of the distance of the mountain range itself
    6. a mountain in northern Judah lying westward from Kirjath-jearim

Usages

Ezekiel 35:2

Breakdown

mount Seir represents Edom (Genesis 36:8-9).

Strongs concordance

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