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Places of the Bible

Seir

Region

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Seir, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 2 verses
  • Deliverance by Barak And Deborah · 1277 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The name of a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the south-eastern extremity of the Dead Sea to near the Akabah, or the eastern branch of the Red Sea. It was originally occupied by the Horites (Gen. 14:6), who were afterwards driven out by the Edomites (Gen. 32:3; 33:14, 16). It was allotted to the descendants of Esau (Deut. 2:4, 22; Josh. 24:4; 2 Chr. 20:10; Isa. 21:11; Exek. 25:8).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 24 verses

Genesis
14:6, 32:3, 33:14, 33:16, 36:8, 36:9, 36:30
Numbers
24:18
Deuteronomy
1:44, 2:4, 2:8, 2:12, 2:22, 2:29, 33:2
Joshua
11:17, 12:7, 24:4
Judges
5:4
2 Chronicles
20:23, 25:11, 25:14
Isaiah
21:11
Ezekiel
25:8

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.