Comentario citado sobre Jeremías 27:20

חורי It is either an adjective, meaning white,¹⁴A. V., Net-works. or a noun, signifying fine things, חוֹרָי being a plural form used instead of חורים; comp. חוֹרֵי the nobles of (Jer. 27:20).¹⁵As the Hebrew text stands וכמוהו חוֹרֵי יהודה, it is not clear what this instance is to prove; the regular construct state חוֹרֵי does not contribute anything to the explanation of the irregular form חוֹרָי. The text seems to be incorrect; after כמוהו some instance like חַלוֹנָי windows (Jer. 22:17), or נּוֹבַי grasshoppers (Am. 12:1) is expected, and instead of חורי יהודה we should perhaps read בהראות היו״ד the י being sounded. (See Rashi and Michlal Jophi ad locum.)

“Behold the vessels of the house of the Lord” That were exiled with Jeconiah.

אלה בני שעיר החרי, “These are the sons of Seir, the Chori.” Rashi writes that the genealogy of all the people following was recorded here only in order to demonstrate the outstanding reputation of Avraham, which had caused Timna to make every conceivable effort to become related to him by marriage to him or one of his family members. Ibn Ezra writes that the reason for this chapter having been written is to separate the genealogy of Esau from that of the local inhabitants, the Chori. The Israelites received instructions from G’d concerning the descendants of Esau, but these were not applicable to the descendants of the Chori. Nachmanides explains that the Chori was the name of a founder of a nation which had been named after their founder-father. The nation was also called Seir, on account of the region inhabited by that nation. This latter name became associated with Esau and his descendants. The land of the Chori, which had first been inhabited by members of that tribe, was taken over by Esau and his sons. Our verse shows that the name Seir for the region concerned predated the arrival of Esau in that region. It is related to the arrival there for the first time by Esau, whom we have known from birth as איש שעיר, “a hairy man.” The name “Edom” also is traced back to Esau. The Torah makes a distinction between the inhabitants of the land Seir traced to Chori, and those traced to Esau. The difficulty with Nachmanides’ explanation is that we do find already in Genesis 14,6 a reference to “Chori in their mountains of Seir.” The chapter in question describes a situation prevailing at least 100 years before Esau was born. Ibn Ezra understands the word חרי as in חרי יהודה, “outstanding men of Yehudah.” (compare Jeremiah 27,20; Nechemyah 6,17)