Lexicon :: Strong's H6240 - ʿeśer

So Seth’s life lasted 912 years; then he died.

Enosh lived 815 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

The mountains were covered as the water surged above them more than twenty feet.[fn]

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

They were subject to Chedorlaomer for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled[fn] his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan.

“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.

These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their settlements and encampments: twelve leaders[fn] of their clans.[fn]

“For twenty years in your household I served you ​— ​fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks ​— ​and you have changed my wages ten times!

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

But they replied, “We, your servants, were twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now[fn] with our father, and one is no longer living.”

“We were twelve brothers, sons of the same[fn] father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

These were the sons of Zilpah ​— ​whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah ​— ​that she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.

These were Rachel’s sons who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons.

Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years, and his life span was 147 years.

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this is what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

“You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

“You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy date palms, and they camped there by the water.

The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

“You are to make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make eleven of these curtains.

“There are to be eight supports with their silver bases: sixteen bases; two bases under the first support and two bases under each support.

“make hangings 22 ¹/₂ feet[fn] long for one side of the gate, including their three posts and their three bases.

“The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

He made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven of them.

So there were eight supports with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under each one.

the hangings on one side of the gate were 22 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] including their three posts and their three bases.

The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

“The Passover to the LORD comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters[fn] to the LORD begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

“You are to celebrate the LORD’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

“Take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.[fn]

“If the person is sixty years or more, your assessment is fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.

These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral family.

They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle.

On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ochran, leader of the Asherites, presented an offering.

On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the Naphtalites, presented an offering.