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Volume III · Z
ZAIR, or Seira. This is the same as the Country or Mountain of Seir, inhabited by the Idumeans, 2 Kings viii. 21.1 So Joram went over to Zair, and smote the Edomites. Zeirah, instead of Zeir, according to the Rules of the Hebrew Language, insinuates a Motion towards Zeir, or Zair. The Hebrew reads Zeira; but we think it to be a Fault, and that it ought to be read Seira.
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צעירהZeira, instead of שעיר ↩
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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Zair,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/z/zair/.
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