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Place

Seirah

Named in 1 verse, first in Judges 3:26.

In the Bible

All 1 verse, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Judges

  • Judges 3:26

    Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s 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).

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