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    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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  • (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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  • 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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  • daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite, son of Seir the Horite. She was one of two Canaanite women who married Esau, the son of Isaac,...
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    Ashteroth Karnaim The Zuzim in Ham The Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim The Horites in Mount Seir as far as the Desert of Paran near the wilderness The Amalekites...
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  • a Horite clan name that appears in the Hebrew Bible in 1 Chronicles 1 and Genesis 36. The passages involved are about the relations between Horite clans...
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  • Chronicles 1:38, Anah is a son of Seir and a brother of Zibeon chief of the Horites. In Genesis 36:24 and 1 Chronicles 1:40–41, Anah is a son of Zibeon, and...
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    Genesis, Esau's descendants settled in the land after they had displaced the Horites. It was also called the land of Seir; Mount Seir appears to have been strongly...
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    Chagar Bazar Tell Fekheriye (Sikkan, Washukanni?) Tall Al-Hamidiya (Taidu?) Horites Nairi Hurrian songs [H. A. Hoffner, Jr., ed]H. A. Hoffner, Jr., ed, "Perspectives...
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  • the Hurrians, people later known in the Biblical tradition possibly as Horites. The following Middle Bronze Age period was initiated by the arrival of...
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    Edomites and the brother of Israel) and Eliphaz's concubine Timna. Timna was a Horite and sister of Lotan. According to a midrash, Timna was a princess who tried...
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  • Jephunneh). Shobal was a Horite chief in the hill country of Seir during the days of Esau. He was a son of Seir the Horite, and his sons were Alvas,...
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    "Hamiticized" Jewish folk came into existence from non-Afro-Asiatic Hurrian (or Horite), Jebusite, Amorite or early-Hittite, Mittani-affiliated racial nuclei,...
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    seem to be rigidly maintained; for instance, the name of the pre-Semitic Horites might have been expected to follow the exceptional construction. But a...
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  • the Hebrew Bible, Jaakan is one of the sons of Ezer, the son of Seir the Horite (1 Chronicles 1:42). Jaakan is spelt "Akan" in Genesis 36:27. There is also...
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    loose attempts at tracing; Struhates, Auhates, and Krobyzoi by Herodotus, Horites by Orosius in 418 AD, and the Harus (original form Hrws, some read Hrwts;...
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    several peoples in and around Canaan: the Rephaim, the Zuzim, the Emim, the Horites, the Amalekites, and the Amorites. Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah...
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    In the seventh reading, the text enumerates the descendants of Seir the Horite. The fourth open portion ends here. In the continuation of the reading,...
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    parallels or is discussed in these sources: Genesis 14:5–6 (Rephaim, Emim, Horites); 15:5 (numerous as stars); 22:17 (numerous as stars); 26:4 (numerous as...
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    environment. The name of the kibbutz derives from "one of the sons of Seir the Horite". (Genesis 36:20; a descendant of Esau, who lived in Edom nearby). Income...
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    Hebrew canonical books. There, it describes a certain people known as Ḥorites, who inhabited the general region. In the second millennium BCE they were...
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    his participation in the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo in the Bosco Malo-Pod Horite area and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 31 May. As chief of staff...
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  • Canaanites, Hittites, Sumerians, Elamites, Babylonians-Assyrians, Urartu the Horites, Phoenicians, and Arameans. La Religione babilonese e assira [The Babylonian...
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