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Horites (Egyptian Khar) were cave-dwellers mentioned in the Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
 (Genesis
Genesis

Genesis or Breishit is the first book of the Bible used by Judaism and Christianity, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah....
 14:6, 36:20, Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament. In form it is a set of three sermons delivered by Moses reviewing the previous forty years of wandering in the wilderness; its central element is a detailed law-code by which the Children of Israel are to live in the Promised Land....
 2:12) inhabiting areas around Petra
Petra

Petra is an Archaeology site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a Depression among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba....
. They have been identified with Egyptian
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
 references to Khar which concern a southern region of Canaan
Canaan

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
. This location and the similarity of the biblical term Hori
Hori

Hori may refer to:*Hori , a Japanese manufacturer of video game peripherals*Hideyuki Hori, a seiyuu *?Hori?, a Maori transliteration of ?George?, is a New Zealand colloquialism used as a derogatory term for Maori people....
 to the Egyptian term Khar, formerly translated as Harri
Harri

Harri may refer to:*Guto Harri , a former BBC Chief Political Correspondent*Harri Anne Smith, a Republican member of the Alabama Senate*Harri Eloranta , a former Finnish biathlete...
, has connected the Biblical Horites. Their most famous ancestor is called Seir
Seir

Seir - ??????? "Rough; hairy", Standard Hebrew Se?ir, Tiberian Hebrew Se??r. It is sometimes used as an alternative term for a goat, as in "Seir La'Azazel" ???? ?????? - Scapegoat....
 but no genealogy is given for him.






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Horites (Egyptian Khar) were cave-dwellers mentioned in the Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
 (Genesis
Genesis

Genesis or Breishit is the first book of the Bible used by Judaism and Christianity, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah....
 14:6, 36:20, Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament. In form it is a set of three sermons delivered by Moses reviewing the previous forty years of wandering in the wilderness; its central element is a detailed law-code by which the Children of Israel are to live in the Promised Land....
 2:12) inhabiting areas around Petra
Petra

Petra is an Archaeology site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a Depression among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah , the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba....
. They have been identified with Egyptian
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
 references to Khar which concern a southern region of Canaan
Canaan

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
. This location and the similarity of the biblical term Hori
Hori

Hori may refer to:*Hori , a Japanese manufacturer of video game peripherals*Hideyuki Hori, a seiyuu *?Hori?, a Maori transliteration of ?George?, is a New Zealand colloquialism used as a derogatory term for Maori people....
 to the Egyptian term Khar, formerly translated as Harri
Harri

Harri may refer to:*Guto Harri , a former BBC Chief Political Correspondent*Harri Anne Smith, a Republican member of the Alabama Senate*Harri Eloranta , a former Finnish biathlete...
, has connected the Biblical Horites. Their most famous ancestor is called Seir
Seir

Seir - ??????? "Rough; hairy", Standard Hebrew Se?ir, Tiberian Hebrew Se??r. It is sometimes used as an alternative term for a goat, as in "Seir La'Azazel" ???? ?????? - Scapegoat....
 but no genealogy is given for him. Despite the widespread sphere of Hurrian influence these might not be synonymous. While in history Hurrians had close relations with so-called Hattians
Hattians

The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited the land of Hatti in present-day central and southeastern parts of Anatolia, Turkey. The Hattian civilisation was situated between ca....
, biblical Horites are closely associated, through Seir's son Zibeon, with the Hivites
Hivites

The Hivites were one of the sons of Canaan according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. We know of the Hivites primarily as one of seven main people groups living in the land of Canaan upon the arrival of the Hebrews in the book of Joshua....
. It may be that rather than being a nation, the biblical term Hori may simply refer to a lifestyle common among Hivites which if a meaning is derived from their name makes them a "cave-dwelling" people. They were infiltrated by the Edomites and subsequently assimilated.