Horites

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HORITES.—The pre-Edomitic inhabitants of Seir or Edom according to Gen_14:6 (a late passage) and Deu_2:12; Deu_2:22 (D [Note: Deuteronomist.] 2). Apparently they commingled with the Edomite invaders, for Gen_36:20-21; Gen_36:29 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] 3) counts them among the descendants of Esau. The name is usually taken to mean ‘cave-dwellers,’ and this is probably correct. There are many tombs in the rocks at Petra (cf. Robinson, BRP [Note: RP Biblical Researches in Palestine.] 2 ii. 129, 134), and some of these, like some at Beit Jibrin and some recently discovered at Gezer (cf. PEFSt [Note: Quarterly Statement of the same.] , 1902, pp. 345 ff., and 1903, pp. 9–12) may have been used as dwellings originally. Sayce (HCM [Note: CM Higher Criticism and the Monuments.] 203 ff.) derives the name from a root meaning ‘white’ as contrasted with the ‘red’-skinned Edomites, while Hommei (AHT [Note: HT Ancient Hebrew Tradition.] 261 ff.) takes it as a form of Garu (or Kharu) of one of the Amarna tablets. Kharu was, however, in Egyptian a name for all the inhabitants of Syria (cf. W. M. Müller, Asien und Europa, 148 ff.), and can hardly be connected with Horites. Driver (Deut. p. 38) favours the explanation as equivalent to ‘cave-dwellers’ or ‘troglodytes.’
George A. Barton.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

The Horites were the original inhabitants of the region around Mt Seir, south of the Dead Sea. When Esau and his descendants moved into the region, they overpowered the Horites and took possession of the land for themselves. It became part of the land of Edom, and the remaining Horites were absorbed into the Edomites (Gen_14:6; Gen_36:20-21; Deu_2:12; Deu_2:22; see EDOM).
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.

Ho?rites or Horim. The people who inhabited Mount Seir before the Edomites [IDUMEA].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.

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