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Lexicon :: Strong's H6235 - ʿeśer

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עֶשֶׂר
Transliteration
ʿeśer
Pronunciation
eh'ser
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1711a

Strong’s Definitions

עֶשֶׂר ʻeser, eh'ser; masculine of term עֲשָׂרָה ʻăsârâh; from H6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits):—ten, (fif-, seven-) teen.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x

The KJV translates Strong's H6235 in the following manner: ten (172x), fifteen (with H2568) (1x), seventeen (with H7651) (1x), ten times (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x
The KJV translates Strong's H6235 in the following manner: ten (172x), fifteen (with H2568) (1x), seventeen (with H7651) (1x), ten times (1x).

  1. ten

    1. ten

    2. with other numbers

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶשֶׂר ʻeser, eh'ser; masculine of term עֲשָׂרָה ʻăsârâh; from H6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits):—ten, (fif-, seven-) teen.
STRONGS H6235: Abbreviations
עֶשֶׂר, עֲשָׂרָה 176 noun masculine and feminine ten (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; perhaps MI33 עשרֿ; Phoenician עשר, עסר, עשרת, etc.; Arabic bdb079607, bdb079608; Sabean עשר SabDenkmNo. 11 b, l. 5, 6, עשרת and compounds HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic bdb079609, bdb079610; Assyrian ešertu; Targum עֲסַר, עַסְרָא; עֲשַׂר, עַשְׂרָא; Syriac bdb079611, bdb079612; Nabataean עשר, all = ten; Palmyrene עשרתא the Ten (rulers)); — masculine (with noun feminine) עֶ֫שֶׂר 2 Samuel 15:16 + 53 times (absolute and construct usually indistinguishable); עָ֑שֶׁר 1 Kings 7:43; 1 Chronicles 6:46; feminine (with noun masculine): absolute עֲשָׂרָה Genesis 24:10 + 69 times; construct (probably) עֲשֶׂ֫רֶת 1 Samuel 17:18 + 46 times; feminine plural עֲשָׂרֹת Exodus 18:21 + 2 times; — on plural עֶשְׂרִים, 20, see below; —
†1. a ten, only feminine plural tens in phrase שָׂרֵי ע׳ captains of tens Exodus 18:21, 25 (E), Deuteronomy 1:15.
2. ten, enumerating person or things, usually without other numbers:
a. עֶ֫שֶׂר before feminine plural noun, Genesis 45:23 + 43 times after noun 1 Kings 7:27, 43 — Joshua 15:57; Joshua 21:5, 26 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:46; 2 Chronicles 4:7; before בָּאַמָּה = ten cubits 1 Kings 6:3, 25, 26; 1 Kings 7:23, 24.
b. עֲשָׂרָה before masculine plural noun, Genesis 45:23 + 25 times (including אֲלָפִים ע׳ = 10,000 2 Samuel 18:3; 2 Kings 24:14 Kt, עֲשֶׂרֶת Qr); before a collective noun בָּקָר 1 Kings 5:3, רֶכֶב 2 Kings 13:7; also לֶחֶם הַוֶּה ע׳ 1 Samuel 17:17 these ten loaves, compare 1 Kings 14:3; אֶלֶף ע׳ Ezekiel 45:1 read עֶשְׂרִיס א׳ Greek Version of the LXX Hi Co Berthol Toy; after masculine plural noun † Genesis 32:16 (twice in verse); Genesis 43:3 (all E), Joshua 17:5 (JE), Numbers 29:23 (P), 1 Kings 7:43; 2 Chronicles 4:6, 8; Daniel 1:12, 14, 15 †; after collective noun צאֹן 2 Chronicles 30:24; noun omitted, that is men, † Genesis 18:32 (J) Amos 5:3; Ezra 8:4; that is shekels (weight) Genesis 24:22 (J) Numbers 7:14 + 13 times Numbers 7 (זָהָב ע׳); כֶסֶף ע׳ (that is shekels, value) 2 Samuel 18:11; that is measures (of grain) Haggai 2:16; with article the ten Genesis 18:23 (J; that is men), Nehemiah 11:1 (id. = every ten); as predicate Exodus 27:12 (twice in verse) = Exodus 38:12 (twice in verse) (all P).
c. עֲשֶׂ֫רֶת before masculine plural noun Exodus 34:28 + 18 times, + כַּעֲשֶׂרֶת הַיָּמִים 1 Samuel 25:38 (on article compare Weir in Dr, but dubious; probably omitted, so Greek Version of the LXX We Bu), + אֲלָפִים ע׳ = 10,000 Judges 1:4 + 26 times; noun omitted כֶּסֶף ע׳ (that is shekels) Judges 17:10.
3. rarely + other number:
a. עֶשֶׂר after larger number, מֵאָה שָׁנִים וָע׳ Genesis 50:22, 26; Joshua 24:29 (all E), Judges 2:8.
b. ע׳ before larger number עֶשֶׂר שָׁנִים וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 5:14 (P).
c. עֲשָׂרָה after larger number, מֵאָה וַעֲשָׂרָה הַזְּכָרִים Ezra 8:12, compare (noun preceding) Ezra 1:10.
d. עֲשָׂרָה after smaller number, שִׁבְעָה שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכָּ֑סֶף Jeremiah 32:9 = seventeen shekels; before smaller number + singular noun עֲשָׂרָה וַחֲמִשָּׁה שֶׁקֶל Ezekiel 45:12, but read חֲמִשִּׁים joining עֲשָׂרָה to preceding, Greek Version of the LXXA Hi Co and others

See related Aramaic BDB entry H6236.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:14; 18:23; 18:32; 24:10; 24:22; 32:16; 43:3; 45:23; 45:23; 50:22; 50:26

Exodus

18:21; 18:21; 18:25; 27:12; 34:28; 38:12

Numbers

7; 7:14; 29:23

Deuteronomy

1:15

Joshua

15:57; 17:5; 21:5; 21:26; 24:29

Judges

1:4; 2:8; 17:10

1 Samuel

17:17; 17:18; 25:38

2 Samuel

15:16; 18:3; 18:11

1 Kings

5:3; 6:3; 6:25; 6:26; 7:23; 7:24; 7:27; 7:43; 7:43; 7:43; 14:3

2 Kings

13:7; 24:14

1 Chronicles

6:46; 6:46

2 Chronicles

4:6; 4:7; 4:8; 30:24

Ezra

1:10; 8:4; 8:12

Nehemiah

11:1

Jeremiah

32:9

Ezekiel

45:1; 45:12

Daniel

1:12; 1:14; 1:15

Amos

5:3

Haggai

2:16

H6235

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Strong's Number H6235 matches the Hebrew עֶשֶׂר (ʿeśer),
which occurs 177 times in 157 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 5:14–Jos 24:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:14 - Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim[fn] and made his way to the town of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka[fn] and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23 - And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - He chose capable men from all Israel and made them leaders of the people, officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1 - “Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:16 - Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12 - “The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits[fn] wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:21 - Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12 - The west end was fifty cubits[fn] wide and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels[fn] and of a female at ten shekels[fn];

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels[fn] and of a female at ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:14 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels,[fn] filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:20 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:26 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:32 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:38 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:44 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:50 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:56 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:62 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:68 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:74 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:80 - one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:86

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86 - The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 - You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers.[fn] Then they spread them out all around the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:23 - “ ‘On the fourth day offer ten bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 - So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:57 - Kain, Gibeah and Timnah—ten towns and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - Manasseh’s share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All these ten towns and their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:14 - With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:29 - After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten.

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