Meaning of HOREOS

Dwellers of Mount Seir, also called children of Seir (Gen. 36:20). Chedorlaomer and his allies defeated them (Gen. 14:6).

They were led by clan leaders (Gen. 36:29, 30).
Later, Esau's descendants exterminated the Horites (Deut. 2:12, 22).

The etymology of this name dates back to Heb. "hõr" ("hole, cave"), which has led to the belief that the Horites were a small group of troglodytes, that is, cavemen.

Currently, the Horites are identified with a people called Hurrians, based on a diversity of archaeological finds, in Mari, on the Euphrates (about 10 km from Abou Kemal), which have yielded numerous tablets that have been ascribed to a town called "hurrites."

Other similar texts have been found in the Hittite capital of Boghaz-koi in Asia Minor, and in Nuzu, which today is called Yorgan Tepe, about 18 km southwest of Kirkuk.

This identification Horites = Hurrites has been made based on the acceptance of the conventional chronology of Egypt and the synchronic associations in time with this chronology, which, as has been indicated in other articles, presents serious problems (see EGYPT, PHILISTINES, HITITES , BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY, JOSEPH (THE PATRIARCH), PHARAOH, etc.).

Velikovsky documents, in relation to these facts, how the identification of the "khar" or "jar" of the cuneiform tablets of Ras Shamra (see UGARIT), or of the "khr" or "jr", or the "kharu" of Egyptian documents, must be made with the "kari", "kreti", which are the Carians or Carians, also known in the Scriptures as "Cereteites".

Thus the popular identification Horeos = Hurrians must be discarded as unsustainable. This is a false identification caused by adherence to a chronological framework that turns out to be erroneous.