One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Seir. Every Seir in the Bible
place
Seir
שֵׂעִיר
Seir was a mountainous region inhabited by the Edomites, the descendants of Esau (Gen. 32:3; 36:8; Num. 24:18; Deut. 2:4; Josh. 24:4).
- verses
- 24
- first named
- Genesis 14:6
- last named
- Ezekiel 25:8
- feature
- mountain range
- coordinates
- 30.18°N · 35.32°E
Jebel esh Shera (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Seir in the text
Seir is a mountainous region mentioned frequently in the Bible, located in the southern part of the Transjordan, extending from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It was inhabited by the Horites before the descendants of Esau, the Edomites, dispossessed them (Gen. 14:6; Deut. 2:12, 22).
Seir is closely associated with Esau and his descendants, the Edomites (Gen. 32:3; 33:14, 16; 36:8, 9). It is often used interchangeably with Edom to refer to the nation that emerged from Esau's lineage (Gen. 36:30; Num. 24:18; Deut. 2:4, 8, 29; Josh. 24:4).
The region of Seir played a role in several biblical events. It was the location where the kings of the East fought against the Horites (Gen. 14:6). Moses and the Israelites passed through Seir during their wilderness wanderings, but were instructed not to provoke the Edomites to war (Deut. 1:44; 2:4, 8). Later, during the divided monarchy, King Amaziah of Judah defeated the Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela, a stronghold in Seir (2Chr. 25:11, 14).
The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel also mention Seir in their oracles, often in the context of God's judgment against Edom (Isa. 21:11; Ezek. 25:8). The region's rugged terrain and strategic location made it a formidable challenge for invading armies and a symbol of Edom's strength and pride.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Seir is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
24 verses across 8 of 66 books; 58 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (7), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (7), Joshua (3), Judges (1), 2 Chronicles (3), Isaiah (1) and Ezekiel (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 24, across 8 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 32Seir was the land where Esau was going to meet Jacob.
- Genesis 33Seir was the place Esau started toward after the brothers parted.
- Numbers 24Seir is named as an enemy that will become a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2Seir was given to the descendants of Esau, through whose territory Israel passed carefully.
- Isaiah 21Seir sends the repeated question about what remains of the night.
- Ezekiel 25Seir joined Moab in declaring that the house of Judah was like all the other nations.
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