HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8167
שְׂעִירָה
se.i.rah — Seirah
§ Seirath = "the shaggy" a place probably in southeast Ephraim
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Seirath
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Woody district; shaggy, a place among the mountains of Ephraim, bordering on Benjamin, to which Ehud fled after he had assassinated Eglon at Jericho (Judg. 3:26, 27).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.