Bible Names

Horims: meaning of the name

Horims means “princes; being angry.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Horims in Hebrew and Greek

חֹרִי H2752

Chôrîy (kho-ree') — a Chorite or aboriginal Idumaean

from H2356 (חוֹר); cave-dweller or troglodyte;

Horims in Scripture

“Horims” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Deuteronomy 2:12

    The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.

  • Deuteronomy 2:22

    As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: