Bible Person
Meaning: a help · Male · 5 cross references
Ezer is one of the Horite sons of Seir and the head of a clan in the genealogies connected with Edom. He belongs to the wider network of peoples and chiefs inhabiting Seir before and around Esau's settlement. First appears in Gen 36:21.1
AI summary: Ezer matters because the cross references preserve yet another branch of the Horite families tied to Seir. Through his sons and sibling relations, the text maps out the regional clans that help define the world into which Edom fits. This kind of genealogy provides geographical and ethnic texture around Israel's neighbors. Taken together, the material presents Ezer as a Horite clan ancestor within the broader Seir-Edom landscape.1
Central Figure
Ezer
Meaning: a help
One of the sons of Seir, the native princes, “dukes,” of Mount Hor (Gen.
One of the sons of Seir, the native princes, “dukes,” of Mount Hor (Gen. 36:21, 27). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.