cho.ri is a gentilic designation for the people associated with Seir, including Seir's named chiefs and descendants.

The term consistently functions as a gentilic designation: it identifies people in Mount Seir, names Seir as belonging to this group, and marks chiefs and descendants in the land of Edom. The same designation also appears in accounts of the group's displacement by Esau's descendants.

1. Gentilic designation for Seir's people and chiefs · dominant

   The gentilic form identifies the people in Mount Seir in Genesis 14:6, while Genesis 36:20 names Seir with the designation and Genesis 36:21 and Genesis 36:29 apply it in lists of chiefs. In Deuteronomy 2:12 and Deuteronomy 2:22, the APB renders the group as "Horites" whom Esau's descendants dispossessed and whose land they took.

   Deuteronomy 2:12Deuteronomy 2:22Genesis 14:6Genesis 36:20Genesis 36:21Genesis 36:29

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the designation as "Horites" in the Mount Seir and displacement accounts and as "Horite" in the genealogy and chief lists. These renderings indicate the verse-level presentation rather than a separate meaning for each English form.