1. Seir (place name) — The proper noun Seir, referring to the mountainous region and territory associated with Esau/Edom southeast of the Dead Sea. All four clusters represent the same toponym with different prepositional constructions: bare nominative (eng: 'Seir', arb: سَعِيرَ, kor: 세일, swa: Seiri), with preposition bet 'in Seir' (spa: 'en Seir', arb: فِي سَعِيرَ), with preposition min 'from Seir' (hin: सेईर से, arb: مِنْ سَعِيرَ), and with conjunction waw 'and Seir' (arb: وَسِعِيرُ, swa: na Seiri). The consistent transliteration across all languages confirms a single referent. 36×
AR["سَعيرَ","سَعِيرَ","سَعِيرُ","سِعير","سِعِيرَ"]·ben["এবং-যাকোব","সেয়ীর","সেয়ীরের"]·DE["Seir"]·EN["Se'ir","Seir"]·FR["Seir","Séir"]·heb["שעיר"]·HI["सेइर","सेईर","सेईर-का","सेईर-के","सेईरके"]·ID["Seir"]·IT["Seir","capro"]·jav["Seir","Séir"]·KO["세이르-가","세이르의","세일","세일의"]·PT["Se'ir","Seir"]·RU["Сеир","Сеира"]·ES["Seir","Seir;","Seír"]·SW["Seiri"]·TR["Seir","Seir'in"]·urd["سعیر","سعیر-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שֵׂעִיר n.pr. Sēʿîr (= שָׂעִיר goat? cf. GrayProp. N. 94; but note play in שֵׂעָר Gn 25:25, שָׂעִר 27:11, 23; NöZMG xl (1886), 165; Ency. Bib. ii. 1183 cp. n.pr. mont. الاشعر (the ‘hairy,’ i.e. ‘well-wooded,’ cf. شَعَارٌ trees), n.pr.gent. (orig.n.pr.loc.) أَلَاشْعَرُ; LagBN 92 thinks שׂ׳ orig.n.pr.m., but land much earlier in OT; perhaps = TelAm. land Šêri, ZimZA vi (1891), 257 JastrJBL xi…