a prince; freeborn
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HORI.1. A son of Seir (Gen_36:22 = 1Ch_1:39). 2. The father of Shaphat the Simeonite spy (Num_13:5).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Son of Lotan, son of Seir, brother to Hemam (Gen_36:22-30). The HORITES (troglodytes or inhabitants of caves, probably excavators of the remarkable ones near Petra) inhabited mount Seir (the thickly bushy, or rugged, shaggy) before Esau's invasion (Gen_14:6; Deu_2:12; Deu_2:22; Job_30:6-7).
2. Num_13:5.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ho'ri. (cave-dweller).
1. A Horite, son of Lotan, the son of Seir. Gen_36:22; 1Ch_1:39; Gen_36:30.
2. A man of Simeon, father of Shaphat. Num_13:5.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
hō?rı̄ (חורי ,חרי, ḥōrı̄, ?cave-dweller?):
(1) A Horite descendant of Esau (Gen_36:22; 1Ch_1:39).
(2) A Simonite, father of Shaphat, one of the twelve spies (Num_13:5).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hori
(Heb. Chori', חֹרַיor חוֹרַי, prob. a troglodyte, or dweller in a cave, חֹל, otherwise an auger; Sept. Χοῤῥοί, Οὐρί, and Χοῤῥέ; Vulg. Hori and Hurt), the name of two men.
1. A son of Lotan and grandson of Seir, of the aboriginal inhabitants of Idumaea (Gen_36:12; 1Ch_1:39). B.C. cir. 1964.
2. The father of Shaphat, which latter was the commissioner of the tribe of Simeon sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan (Num_13:5). B.C. ante 1657.
3. (Gen_36:30.) SEE HORITE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.