King James Version
Genesis 14:6 in the King James Version says “And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. Elparan: or, The plain of Paran” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. Elparan: or, The plain of Paran”
Genesis 14:6 · KJV
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, Shaveh: or, The plain of Kiriathaim
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. Elparan: or, The plain of Paran
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Seir”
H8165seir, a mountain of idumaea and its indigenous occupants, also one in palestine
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which is by”
H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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