are called Horites because "they made themselves independent [free]", which assumes the name is cognate with ḥori meaning "free." The Horites initially...
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Joshua (Joshua 15:10). Mount Seir was named for Seir the Horite, whose offspring, the Horites, had previously inhabited the area (Genesis 14:6, 36:20)...
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stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba Seir the Horite, chief of the Horites, a people mentioned in the Torah Sa'ir, also Seir, a Palestinian...
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Genesis 36. Casting his lot with the Ishmaelites, he was able to drive the Horites out of Mount Seir to settle in that region. According to some views, Esau...
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9:17). However, the Septuagint reads these four towns as inhabited by Horites, suggesting that the name Hivite may have entered the Masoretic Text via...
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occupying the northern tip of the Hijaz known for their cave-dwelling Horites – a people of the northern Hijaz with an etymology of digging a hole for...
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needed] An allusion is made to some unrecorded fact in the history of the Horites in the passage "This [was that] Anah that found the mules in the wilderness...
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were campaigning in the region of Sodom and Gomorrah, they smote "the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness". (KJV)...
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Genesis 36. Casting his lot with the Ishmaelites, he was able to drive the Horites out of Mount Seir to settle in that region. According to some views, Esau...
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(Hebrew: לוֹטָן, Lōṭān), the eldest son of Seir the Horite, was the first-listed of seven chief of the Horites in the land of Seir in Genesis 36, a book of the...
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