Strong's H8165 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: שֵׂעִיר (Sêʻîyr)

Pronunciation: say-eer'

Morphology: n-pr

Part of Speech: n pr m, n pr terr

Derivation: formed like שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr) [H8163]; rough;

Definition: Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Seir.

Senses

1. Seir = "hairy" or "shaggy"
2. patriarch of the Horites, the inhabitants of Edom before the descendants of Esau, the Edomites
3. the land of Edom, south of the Dead Sea n pr mont
4. 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
5. a mountain in northern Judah lying westward from Kirjath-jearim

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.