Seir: meaning of the name

Seir in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Seir in the Bible

• Seir

  4 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 36:20

Seir in Scripture

“Seir” appears in 38 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 14:6

  And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.

• Genesis 32:3

  And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

• Genesis 33:14

  Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

• Genesis 33:16

  So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

• Genesis 36:8

  Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

• Genesis 36:9

  And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

• Genesis 36:20

  These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

• Genesis 36:21

  And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.