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Lexicon :: Strong's H6215 - ʿēśāv

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עֵשָׂו
Transliteration
ʿēśāv
Pronunciation
ay-sawv'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a form of the pass. part. of עָשָׂה (H6213) in the original sense of handling
Strong’s Definitions

עֵשָׂו ʻÊsâv, ay-sawv'; apparently a form of the passive participle of H6213 in the original sense of handling; rough (i.e. sensibly felt); Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity:—Esau.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 97x

The KJV translates Strong's H6215 in the following manner: Esau (97x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 97x
The KJV translates Strong's H6215 in the following manner: Esau (97x).

  1. Esau = "hairy"

    1. eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob; sold the birthright for food when he was hungry and the divine blessing went to Jacob; progenitor of the Arab peoples

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵשָׂו ʻÊsâv, ay-sawv'; apparently a form of the passive participle of H6213 in the original sense of handling; rough (i.e. sensibly felt); Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity:—Esau.
STRONGS H6215: Abbreviations
עֵשָׂו 97 proper name, masculine Esau, Ησαυ; — Esau, elder son of Isaac Genesis 25:25, 26 + 7 times 25, Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:1 + 24 times Genesis 27:27, 28, Genesis 32:4 [Genesis 32:3] + 15 times Genesis 32; 33; 35, Joshua 24:4 (twice in verse); Malachi 1:2, 3; 1 Chronicles 1:34; identification with אֱדוֺם Genesis 36:1, 8, 19, ancestor of Edomites Genesis 36:9; Genesis 36:43, compare 1 Chronicles 1:35; dwelling in Mt. Seir Genesis 36:8 (25 times in all, Genesis 36) Deuteronomy 2:5; Joshua 24:4; בְּנֵי עֵשָׂו = Edomites Deuteronomy 2:4, 8, 12, 22, 29; עֵשָׂו = Edom Jeremiah 49:8; Obadiah 6, בֵּית עֵשָׂו Jeremiah 49:18; Jeremiah 49:18, הַר עֵשָׂו Jeremiah 49:18; Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 49:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:25; 25:26; 26:34; 27:1; 27:27; 27:28; 32:3; 36; 36:1; 36:8; 36:8; 36:9; 36:19; 36:43

Deuteronomy

2:4; 2:5; 2:8; 2:12; 2:22; 2:29

Joshua

24:4; 24:4

1 Chronicles

1:34; 1:35

Jeremiah

49:8; 49:9; 49:18; 49:18; 49:18; 49:19; 49:21

Obadiah

1:6

Malachi

1:2; 1:3

H6215

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6215 matches the Hebrew עֵשָׂו (ʿēśāv),
which occurs 97 times in 82 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:25–Gen 36:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - Esau said to Jacob, “I’m starved! Give me some of that red stew!” (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means “red.”)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - “Look, I’m dying of starvation!” said Esau. “What good is my birthright to me now?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate the meal, then got up and left. He showed contempt for his rights as the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - At the age of forty, Esau married two Hittite wives: Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My son.”
“Yes, Father?” Esau replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:5 - But Rebekah overheard what Isaac had said to his son Esau. So when Esau left to hunt for the wild game,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - she said to her son Jacob, “Listen. I overheard your father say to Esau,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - “But look,” Jacob replied to Rebekah, “my brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then she took Esau’s favorite clothes, which were there in the house, and gave them to her younger son, Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob replied, “It’s Esau, your firstborn son. I’ve done as you told me. Here is the wild game. Now sit up and eat it so you can give me your blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you and make sure that you really are Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s,” Isaac said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob’s hands felt hairy just like Esau’s. So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - “But are you really my son Esau?” he asked.
“Yes, I am,” Jacob replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and almost before Jacob had left his father, Esau returned from his hunt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - But Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”
Esau replied, “It’s your son, your firstborn son, Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry. “Oh my father, what about me? Bless me, too!” he begged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac said to Esau, “I have made Jacob your master and have declared that all his brothers will be his servants. I have guaranteed him an abundance of grain and wine—what is left for me to give you, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau pleaded, “But do you have only one blessing? Oh my father, bless me, too!” Then Esau broke down and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - From that time on, Esau hated Jacob because their father had given Jacob the blessing. And Esau began to scheme: “I will soon be mourning my father’s death. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - But Rebekah heard about Esau’s plans. So she sent for Jacob and told him, “Listen, Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - So Esau visited his uncle Ishmael’s family and married one of Ishmael’s daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife’s name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Then Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother, Esau, who was living in the region of Seir in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He told them, “Give this message to my master Esau: ‘Humble greetings from your servant Jacob. Until now I have been living with Uncle Laban,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - After delivering the message, the messengers returned to Jacob and reported, “We met your brother, Esau, and he is already on his way to meet you—with an army of 400 men!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - He thought, “If Esau meets one group and attacks it, perhaps the other group can escape.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - O LORD, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 - Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - He gave these instructions to the men leading the first group: “When my brother, Esau, meets you, he will ask, ‘Whose servants are you? Where are you going? Who owns these animals?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - You must reply, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob, but they are a gift for his master Esau. Look, he is coming right behind us.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - Jacob gave the same instructions to the second and third herdsmen and to all who followed behind the herds: “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Then Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and his two servant wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - “My brother, I have plenty,” Esau answered. “Keep what you have for yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - “All right,” Esau said, “but at least let me assign some of my men to guide and protect you.”
Jacob responded, “That’s not necessary. It’s enough that you’ve received me warmly, my lord!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So Esau turned around and started back to Seir that same day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Get ready and move to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother, Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:29 - Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 - This is the account of the descendants of Esau (also known as Edom).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 - Esau married two young women from Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:4 - Adah gave birth to a son named Eliphaz for Esau. Basemath gave birth to a son named Reuel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:5 - Oholibamah gave birth to sons named Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan.

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