Seir

Mountain range south of the Dead Sea, later associated with Esau and the Edomites. Lapide cites it as an example of prolepsis in Moses' writing: Moses calls the mountains Seir, though they received that name only long after, from Esau.

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Mountains called Seir only later by Esau (prolepsis)

  "he calls the mountains Seir, which were called Seir only long after, by Esau"

Related

• Esau