Hori

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Lotan, son of Seir, brother to Hemam ( Genesis 36:22-30). The Horites (troglodytes or inhabitants of caves, probably excavators of the remarkable ones near Petra) inhabited mount Seir (the thickly bushy, or rugged, shaggy) before Esau's invasion ( Genesis 14:6;  Deuteronomy 2:12;  Deuteronomy 2:22;  Job 30:6-7).

2.  Numbers 13:5.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ho'ri. (Cave-Dweller).

1. A Horite, son of Lotan, the son of Seir.  Genesis 36:22;  1 Chronicles 1:39;  Genesis 36:30.

2. A man of Simeon, father of Shaphat.  Numbers 13:5.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HORI. 1. A son of Seir (  Genesis 36:22 =   1 Chronicles 1:39 ). 2. The father of Shaphat the Simeonite spy (  Numbers 13:5 ).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Lotan, a descendant of Seir the Horite.  Genesis 36:22,30;  1 Chronicles 1:39 .

2. Father of Shaphat of the tribe of Simeon.  Numbers 13:5 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 36:22 2 Numbers 13:5

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chori', חֹרַי or חוֹרַי , prob. a "troglodyte," or dweller in a cave, חֹל , otherwise an Auger; Sept. Χοῤῥοί , Οὐρί , and Χοῤῥέ ; Vulg. Hori and Hurt), the name of two men.

1. A son of Lotan and grandson of Seir, of the aboriginal inhabitants of Idumaea ( Genesis 36:12;  1 Chronicles 1:39). B.C. cir. 1964.

2. The father of Shaphat, which latter was the commissioner of the tribe of Simeon sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan ( Numbers 13:5). B.C. ante 1657.

3. ( Genesis 36:30.) (See Horite).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hō´rı̄ ( ע ֿ2 חורי נ , חרי , ḥōrı̄ , "cave-dweller"):

(1) A H orite descendant of Esau ( Genesis 36:22;  1 Chronicles 1:39 ).

(2) A S imonite, father of Shaphat, one of the twelve spies ( Numbers 13:5 ).