What does Genesis 36:20 mean?
Esau moved his large family to the hill country of Seir (Genesis 36:7–8). At the time, Seir was already occupied by the Horite people. This is the same group noted in Genesis 14:6 when Abraham was forced to rescue his nephew, Lot (Genesis 14:12–16). Deuteronomy 2:12 says, "The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place."Seir, for whom the region is named, had many sons, including Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, and Anah. The name "Seir" is ironic, in that it means "hairy," and the man whose family conquered that territory was infamously shaggy, himself (Genesis 27:11).