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Lexicon :: Strong's H6240 - ʿeśer

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עֶשֶׂר
Transliteration
ʿeśer
Pronunciation
aw-sawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1711b

Strong’s Definitions

עָשָׂר ʻâsâr, aw-sawr'; for H6235; ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth:—(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's H6240 in the following manner: eleven (with H259) (9x), eleven (with H6249) (6x), eleventh (with H6249) (13x), eleventh (with H259) (4x), twelve (with H8147) (106x), twelfth (with H8147) (21x), thirteen (with H7969) (13x), thirteenth (with H7969) (11x), etc to nineteen (152x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's H6240 in the following manner: eleven (with H259) (9x), eleven (with H6249) (6x), eleventh (with H6249) (13x), eleventh (with H259) (4x), twelve (with H8147) (106x), twelfth (with H8147) (21x), thirteen (with H7969) (13x), thirteenth (with H7969) (11x), etc to nineteen (152x).
  1. ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers)

    1. used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָשָׂר ʻâsâr, aw-sawr'; for H6235; ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth:—(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).
STRONGS H6240: Abbreviations
עָשָׂר 203, עֶשְׂרֵה 144 noun ten, only after units to make numbers 11-19, both cardinal and ordinal; עֶשְׂרֵה with noun feminine, עָשָׂר with noun masculine, thus:
1. eleven:
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Genesis 32:23 + 2 times
b. אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) 2 Kings 23:36 + 7 times; also = eleventh 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29.
c. עַשְׁתֵּי עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Numbers 29:20; ordinal Deuteronomy 1:3 + 7 times
d. עַשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) Exodus 26:7 + 4 times; ordinal Jeremiah 1:3 + 4 times
2. twelve:
a. שְׁנֵי (ם) עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Genesis 35:22 + 80 times ordinal 1 Kings 19:19 + 12 times
b. שְׁתֵּי(ם) עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) Exodus 24:4 + 31 times; ordinal 2 Kings 8:25 + 6 times
3. thirteen:
a. שְׁלשָׁה עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Numbers 29:14 + 2 times; ordinal Esther 3:12 + 7 times
b. שְׁלשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) 1 Kings 7:1 + 9 times; ordinal Genesis 14:4 + 2 times
4. fourteen:
a. אַרְכָּעָה עָשָׂר Genesis 46:22 + 13 times; ordinal Exodus 12:6 + 17 times
b. אַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 31:41 + 5 times; ordinal 2 Kings 18:13 + 3 times
5. fifteen:
a. חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר Hosea 3:2 + 3 times; ordinal Exodus 16:1 + 14 times
b. חֲמֵשֶׁת עָשָׂר Judges 8:10; 2 Samuel 19:18.
c. חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה 2 Kings 14:17 + 9 times; ordinal † 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 15:10. — See also עֶשֶׂר 2d.
6. sixteen:
a. שִׁשָּׁה עָשָׂר Exodus 26:25 + 6 times; ordinal 1 Chronicles 24:14 + 2 times
b. שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 46:18 + 13 times
7. seventeen:
a. שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר 1 Chronicles 7:11 + 2 times; ordinal Genesis 7:11 + 3 times
b. שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 37:2 + 4 times; ordinal 1 Kings 22:52; 2 Kings 16:1. — See also עֶשֶׂר 3d.
8. eighteen:
a. שְׁמֹנָה (שְׂמֹנַת) עָשָׂר Genesis 14:4 + 10 times; ordinal 1 Chronicles 24:15; 1 Chronicles 25:25.
b. שְׁמֹנֶה עֶשְׂרֵה Judges 3:14 + 6 times; ordinal 1 Kings 15:1 + 8 times
†9. nineteen:
a. תִּשְׁעָה עָשָׂר 2 Samuel 2:30; ordinal 1 Chronicles 24:16; 1 Chronicles 25:26.
b. תְּשַׁע עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 11:25; Joshua 19:38; ordinal 2 Kings 25:8 = Jeremiah 52:12.
These numbers usually take singular of the nouns most often used, שָׁנָה, יוֺם, חֹדֶשׁ, compare (sometimes) אִישׁ, אַמָּךְ, etc.; otherwise plural; rarely (late usage) they follow noun, which is then usually plural, e.g. Numbers 29:30; Joshua 15:51 (P), Ezra 8:35 (twice in verse); Esther 3:13; Esther 8:5, etc. (even שָׁנִים שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה Nah Esther 5:14), but שָׁנָה precedes ordinal 1 Kings 6:38, שְׁנַת 1 Kings 15:1 + 8 times, so יוֺם (with ordinal) 2 Chronicles 29:17 + 5 times Esther 9; also יוֺם and (שְׁנַת) שָׁנָה both precede and following ordinal Numbers 7:72, 78; 2 Kings 8:25; 2 Kings 9:29; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:1; Jeremiah 32:1; 2 Kings 25:8 = Jeremiah 52:12. — See also Köii. 1. 211 ff. DaSynt. § 37 a, also R. 1, 2. Ges§§ 92d, e, 134, and especially HernerSynt. d. Zahlw-rter im AT {1893}; on form in הֵ֯ (prob for יַ֯), Ol§ 110ii. 1, 427 WSG 138.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:11; 11:25; 14:4; 14:4; 31:41; 32:23; 35:22; 37:2; 46:18; 46:22

Exodus

12:6; 16:1; 24:4; 26:7; 26:25

Numbers

7:72; 7:78; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 29:14; 29:20; 29:30

Deuteronomy

1:3

Joshua

15:51; 19:38

Judges

3:14; 8:10

2 Samuel

2:30; 19:18

1 Kings

6:38; 6:38; 7:1; 15:1; 15:1; 19:19; 22:52

2 Kings

8:25; 8:25; 9:29; 9:29; 14:17; 14:23; 14:23; 16:1; 16:1; 18:13; 23:36; 25:8; 25:8

1 Chronicles

7:11; 24:14; 24:15; 24:16; 25:25; 25:26

2 Chronicles

15:10; 29:17

Ezra

8:35

Esther

3:12; 3:13; 5:14; 8:5; 9

Jeremiah

1:3; 32:1; 52:12; 52:12

Hosea

3:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6240 matches the Hebrew עֶשֶׂר (ʿeśer),
which occurs 338 times in 292 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 6 (Jos 21:7–2Ki 16:1)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 -

The sons of Merari according to their families [fn]received twelve H6240 cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:19 - All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen H6240 cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen H6240 cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve H6240 cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - So the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen H6240 years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about 15,000 H6240 men, all who were left of the entire camp of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 men who drew the sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And they shattered and smashed the sons of Israel [fn]that year; for eighteen H6240 years they did this to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan [fn]in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - Then he entered his house and took a knife and took hold of his concubine and cut her in twelve H6240 pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day and destroyed to the ground again 18,000 H6240 men of the sons of Israel; all these drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - Thus 18,000 H6240 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent 12,000 H6240 of the men of valor there and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:15 - So they arose and went over by count, twelve H6240 for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve H6240 of the servants of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 -

Now Joab returned from following Abner. And he had gathered all the people together, and [fn]nineteen H6240 of David’s servants besides Asahel were missing.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13 -

So David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 H6240 [fn]Arameans in the Valley of Salt.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - “And you and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson may have food and eat of it; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall [fn]eat at my table continually.” Now Ziba had fifteen H6240 sons and twenty servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 -

Then the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David. So the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 H6240 men.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:1 -

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 H6240 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - Now there were one thousand men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the young man of the house of Saul, and his fifteen H6240 sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7 -

Now Solomon had twelve H6240 deputies over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain them for a month in the year.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - Solomon had [fn]40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 H6240 horsemen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:38 - Now in the eleventh H6240 year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was completed throughout all its parts and according to all its [fn]plans. So he built it in seven years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:1 -

Now Solomon built his own house thirteen H6240 years, and he completed all his house.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3 - And it was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 H6240 in each row.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:15 -

And he fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen H6240 cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve H6240 cubits [fn]measured the circumference of both.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It stood on twelve H6240 oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:44 - and the one sea and the twelve H6240 oxen under the sea;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 -

So Solomon celebrated the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from [fn]Lebo-hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen H6240 days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:20 - Twelve H6240 lions were also standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for all the other kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 -

And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 H6240 horsemen and [fn]stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:30 - Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve H6240 pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth H6240 day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he [fn]went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he had made. And he had the priests of the high places, which he had made, stand in Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - Then he [fn]went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth H6240 day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had [fn]devised [fn]in his own heart; and he made a feast for the sons of Israel and [fn]went up to the altar to burn [fn]incense.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 -

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon became king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen H6240 years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:1 -

Now in the eighteenth H6240 year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:23 - In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reigned twelve H6240 years; he reigned six years at Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - Then Elijah took twelve H6240 stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:19 -

So he went from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve H6240 pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth H6240. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:48 - Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:51 -

Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth H6240 year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1 -

Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth H6240 year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve H6240 years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25 -

In the twelfth H6240 year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah became king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:29 -

Now in the eleventh H6240 year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:1 -

In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel at Samaria, and he reigned seventeen H6240 years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:10 -

In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria and reigned sixteen H6240 years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 -

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen H6240 years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took [fn]Azariah, who was sixteen H6240 years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 -

In the fifteenth H6240 year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:2 - He was sixteen H6240 years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was [fn]Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen H6240 years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:1 -

In the seventeenth H6240 year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.


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