שֵׂעִיר
se.ir (H8165G)
(Mount) Seir
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word שֵׂעִיר (se.ir) has a short definition of (Mount) Seir, indicating its reference to a geographical location. This noun appears 12 times in the Bible, suggesting its importance in ancient Israelite culture and the narrative. The specific connection of this word to a physical mountain range implies that Seir held significant significance in both its natural features and potential economic, strategic, or symbolic roles. Given its repeated appearances, Seir likely carries a range of connotations tied to its topography, with implications for its relationship to the Israelites, their neighbors, or other biblical figures. The prevalence of this word in the biblical narrative may also be an indication of the cultural or theological importance attached to this location, suggesting its connection to broader themes of land, borders, or spiritual identity.
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It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.
Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;
When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”