Horims, [Ho'rims] Horites. [Ho'rites]
Descendants of Seir, and Aborigines of mount Seir. They were destroyed by the children of Esau. Genesis 14:6; Genesis 36:20, Genesis 1:36, Genesis 1:36; Deuteronomy 2:12, Deuteronomy 1:2. It is thought that they were cave-dwellers, as the name implies. The sandstone rocks of mount Seir are full of excavated dwellings, and there are traces of the same throughout the region of Edom.