Seir (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. The name of a mountainous district cast of the 'Arabah, j)eopled by the Edomites. It was originallj- occu- pied by liorites or 'cave-dwellers' (Gn 14" [where read, after LXX and Sam., ryt? -nci for b oyin of MT] 36''" [in the latter passage Seir is personified a) the eponymous ancestor of the indigenous inhabit- 430 SEIRAH SELA ants]). As Mt. Seir (-I'vi? i?, ri tpos (ri) 2i;(e)/(), Gn 36*'-, Dt 2'- " al.) is practically synonymous with Edom (cf. Gn 32' ' the hind of Seir, tlie field of Edimi,' DUN rryf Tyi" [-in, yri ^rjclp X'^P"' 'iioti/x), it will suHice to refer for further details to art. Edom. 2. Quite ditrerent is the Mt. Seir (tJ 'Aa-ffdp, A, n^ip) nientioned in Jos 15'° amongst the points deliuinj; the boundaries of Judah. The name may still be preserved in that of the ruins at Sdris, S.W. of Kiriath-jearim (cf. the name SupTit in LXX A [but B 'Euiivs] of Jos 15"). See Robinson, BJiP^ lii. 154 If.; Buhl, GAP 91, 167 ; Dillm. Jos. ad loc. J. A. Selbie.