Genesis 14:6

וְאֶת־הַחֹרִי בְּהַרְרָם שֵׂעִיר עַד אֵיל פָּארָן אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

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Hebrew

וְאֶת־הַחֹרִ֖י בְּהַרְרָ֣ם שֵׂעִ֑יר עַ֚ד אֵ֣יל פָּארָ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ τοὺς Χορραὶανς τοὺς ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν Σηείρ, ἕως τῆς τερεμίνθου τῆς Φοράν, ἥ ἐστιν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.’

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

et Chorræos in montibus Seir, usque ad Campestria Pharan, quæ est in solitudine.

Spanish

y a los horeos en los montes de Seir, hasta El Parán, que está cerca del desierto.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y á los Horeos en el monte de Seir, hasta la llanura de Parán, que está junto al desierto.

English

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse continues a geographical list describing the campaign of the four kings, naming the Horites and the territory they occupied. It specifies that the Horites lived in the hill country of Seir, extending to El-paran, a place located next to the wilderness.

Key words

ha.Chori ("the Horite[s]", H2752) — definite article plus gentilic noun, naming the population group being described in this stage of the list.
ha.Raram ("hill country of", H2022H) — masculine singular noun in construct state, meaning it must be joined to what follows ("hill country of X"); it sets up the phrase naming the region.
Se'ir ("Seir", H8165A) — proper name in apposition to the construct noun, completing "hill country of Seir."
'eil ("El", H0364) — proper name marking the second geographic point ("as far as"), paired with Paran to form the compound place-name "El-paran."
'asher ("which", H0834A) — relative particle introducing a clause that further identifies El-paran's location relative to the wilderness.

What the text says

The verse is structured as an extension of a list of peoples and places, connected to the previous verse by the initial ve ("and", H9002) plus the object marker 'et (H0853), which signals that "the Horite" is a further direct object of the verb governing the earlier list (not present in this verse itself). The core geographic statement uses a construct chain: be-hararam Se'ir, literally "in the hill-country-of-them, Seir" — the pronominal suffix -am ("their") on hararam refers back to the Horites, so the phrase reads "in their hill country, [namely] Seir." This is followed by 'ad ("to", H5704), marking the outer boundary of the described territory, extending "to El-paran."

The final clause, introduced by the relative particle 'asher, locates El-paran itself: it is 'al ha-midbar ("at/by the wilderness", H5921A + H9009 + H4057B), using the preposition 'al to indicate proximity or position adjacent to the wilderness rather than being situated within it.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew treats 'eil Paran as a compound proper name ("El-paran"). The LXX instead renders 'eil as τερεμίνθου ("terebinth," a type of tree) followed by τῆς Φοράν ("of Phoran"), producing "the terebinth of Phoran" rather than a single place name. The Vulgate similarly departs from a proper-name reading, giving "Campestria Pharan" ("the plains of Pharan"), treating the first element as a geographic feature (plains) rather than as part of a toponym. The Spanish RV1909 follows a plains/llanura reading close to the Vulgate, while SBLIBRE and BSB follow the Hebrew's proper-name structure "El Parán / El-paran."

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.