SEIR

the Horite, whose dwelling was to the east and south of the Dead
Sea, in the mountains of Seir, Genesis xiv, 6; xxxvi, 20; Deuteronomy
ii, 12; where at first reigned the descendants of Seir the Horite, of
whom Moses gives us a list in Genesis xxxvi, 20, 21–30; 1 Chron. 38, 39,
&c. The posterity of Esau afterward were in possession of the mountains
of Seir, and Esau himself dwelt there when Jacob returned from
Mesopotamia, Gen. xxxiii, 3; xxxiii, 14; xxxvi, 8, 9.