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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.
Seir the Horite, chief of the Horites, a people mentioned in the Torah; Sa'ir, also Seir, a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank; Seir, a demon in the Ars Goetia; Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern Indian Ocean; SEIR model, a compartmental model in epidemiology
The Edomites first established a kingdom ("Edom") in the southern area of modern-day Jordan and later migrated into the southern parts of the Kingdom of Judah ("Idumea", modern-day Mount Hebron) [dubious – discuss] when Judah was first weakened and then destroyed by the Babylonians in the 6th century BC. [16] [17]
Uz has often been identified as either Aram in modern-day Syria (teal) or Edom in modern-day Jordan (yellow).. The land of Uz (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ־עוּץ – ʾereṣ-ʿŪṣ) is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, most prominently in the Book of Job, which begins, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job".
It is 11 days' march by way of Mount Seir from Horeb (Deuteronomy 1:2). By the late nineteenth century, as many as eighteen sites had been proposed for biblical Kadesh. [ 8 ] One source of confusion has been the fact that Kadesh is sometimes mentioned in connection with the Desert of Paran ( Numbers 13:26 ) and at other times with the Zin ...
Jebel Harun ('Mount Aaron') near Petra. This Mount Hor is situated "in the edge of the land of Edom" (Numbers 20:23, 33:37) and was the scene of Aaron's divestiture, death and burial.
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
Sela in Edom is widely identified with the ruins of Sela, east of Tafileh (identified as biblical Tophel) and near Bozrah, both Edomite cities in the mountains of Edom, in modern-day Jordan.