Mount Seir

Mount Seir ( ; Har Se'ir) formed the south-east border of Edom and Judah , it may also echo the older historical border of Egypt and Canaan . It was the mountainous region allotted to the descendants of Esau , the Edomites. Mount Seir is specifically noted as the place that Esau made his home ( Genesis 36:8; Joshua 24:4). It was named for Seir , the Horite , whose sons inhabited the land (Genesis 36:20). The children of Esau battled against the Horites and destroyed them ( Deuteronomy 2:12). Mount Seir is also given as the location where the remnants "of the Amalekites that had escaped" were annihilated by five hundred Simeonites ( I Chronicles 4:42-43).

Mount Seir ( ; Har Se'ir) was a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqabah, demarcating the southeastern border of Edom with Judah . It may also have marked the older historical limit of Egypt in Canaan . A place called "Seir, in the land of Shasu " ( ta-Shasu se`er, t3-sh3sw s`r ), thought to be near Petra, Jordan , is listed in the temple of Amenhotep III at Soleb (ca. 1380 BC).

Al-Sharāh Mountains shown in red in South-West Jordan (Shaubak/Mt. Se'ir) Mount Seir ( ; Har Se'ir ), today known in Arabic as ( ; Jibāl ash-Sharāh ), is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah . It may also have marked the older historical limit of Ancient Egypt in Canaan . A place called "Seir, in the land of Shasu " ( ta-Shasu se`er, t3-sh3sw s`r ), thought to be near Petra , Jordan , is listed in the temple of Amenhotep III at Soleb (ca. 1380 BC).

Mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba Al-Sharāh Mountains shown in red in South-West Jordan (Shaubak/Mt. Se'ir) Mount Seir ( , Har Sēʿīr ) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah . It may also have marked the older historical limit of Ancient Egypt in Canaan . A place called "Seir, in the land of Shasu " ( ta-Shasu se`er, t3-sh3sw s`r ), thought to be near Petra , Jordan , is listed in the temple of Amenhotep III at Soleb (ca. 1380 BC). The modern Arabic equivalent is thought to be Jibal ash-Sharah ( ) in Jordan . In Freedman, David Noel (ed.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible .

Mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba Al-Sharāh Mountains shown in red in South-West Jordan (Shaubak/Mt. Se'ir) Mount Seir ( Hebrew : הַר-שֵׂעִיר , romanized : Har Sēʿīr ) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah . It may also have marked the older historical limit of Ancient Egypt in Canaan . A place called "Seir, in the land of Shasu " ( tꜣ-šꜣsw sʿr – ta-Shasu seʿer ), thought to be near Petra , Jordan , is listed in the temple of Amenhotep III at Soleb (ca. 1380 BC). The Nabataean equivalent is šrʾ , and the modern Arabic equivalent is thought to be al-Sharat ( Arabic : جبال الشراة , romanized : Jibāl ash-Sharāh , lit. ' Mountains of Sharāh ' ) in Jordan . In Freedman, David Noel (ed.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible .