- Bible
- Genesis
- Chapter 36
- Verse 22
Genesis 36:22
And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
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Gill's Exposition
And these are the sons of Dishon,.... Not of Dishon the son of Anah, but of Dishon the son of Seir, Gen 36:21; and they are the four following:
Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran; the first…
In the midst of this genealogy of the Edomites here is inserted the genealogy of the Horites, those Canaanites, or Hittites (compare Gen 26:34), that were the natives of Mount Seir. Mention is made of…
The Horites the aboriginal inhabitants of the country "the sons of Seir, the Horite," were possibly so called from the word ḥor, "a hole"; cf. 1Sa 13:6; 1Sa 14:11. This derivation has long been…