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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 4 / 6 (2Ki 16:2–1Ch 25:27)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen H6240 years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of Yahweh his God, as David his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:1 -

In the twelfth H6240 year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria and reigned nine years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 -

Now in the fourteenth H6240 year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - “And I will add fifteen H6240 years to your [fn]life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 -

Manasseh was twelve H6240 years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 -

Now it happened in the eighteenth H6240 year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of Yahweh saying,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth H6240 year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 -

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven H6240 years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 -

Jehoiachin was eighteen H6240 years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 -

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven H6240 years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - So the city came under siege until the eleventh H6240 year of King Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 -

Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth H6240 year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:17 - The height of the one pillar was eighteen H6240 [fn]cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three [fn]cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 -

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth H6240 month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:27 -

Now Shimei had sixteen H6240 sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many sons, nor did all their family multiply like the sons of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 -

from the tribe of Benjamin:

Geba with its pasture lands, [fn]Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands.

All their cities throughout their families were thirteen H6240 cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 -

And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen H6240 cities in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 -

To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve H6240 cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 -

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 H6240 mighty men of valor, who went out with the army to war.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212 H6240. These were recorded by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer established in their office of trust.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:13 -

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh H6240.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:31 -

Of the half-tribe of Manasseh 18,000 H6240, who were designated by name to come and make David king.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:10 -

of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 H6240 of his relatives.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:12 -

Moreover, Abishai the son of Zeruiah [fn]smote 18,000 H6240 of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:4 - And more chief men were found from the [fn]sons of Eleazar than the [fn]sons of Ithamar, so they divided them thus: there were sixteen H6240 heads of fathers’ households of the [fn]sons of Eleazar and eight of the [fn]sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ households.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:12 -

the eleventh H6240 for Eliashib,

the twelfth H6240 for Jakim,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:13 -

the thirteenth H6240 for Huppah,

the fourteenth H6240 for Jeshebeab,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:14 -

the fifteenth H6240 for Bilgah,

the sixteenth H6240 for Immer,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:15 -

the seventeenth H6240 for Hezir,

the eighteenth H6240 for Happizzez,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:16 -

the nineteenth H6240 for Pethahiah,

the twentieth for Jehezkel,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:5 -

All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer to [fn]exalt him according to the words of God. So God gave fourteen H6240 sons and three daughters to Heman.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:9 -

Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph,

the second for Gedaliah, he with his relatives and sons were twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:10 -

the third to Zaccur, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:11 -

the fourth to [fn]Izri, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:12 -

the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:13 -

the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:14 -

the seventh to [fn]Jesharelah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:15 -

the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:16 -

the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:17 -

the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:18 -

the eleventh H6240 to Azarel, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:19 -

the twelfth H6240 to Hashabiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:20 -

for the thirteenth H6240, Shubael, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:21 -

for the fourteenth H6240, Mattithiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:22 -

for the fifteenth H6240 to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:23 -

for the sixteenth H6240 to Hananiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:24 -

for the seventeenth H6240 to Joshbekashah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:25 -

for the eighteenth H6240 to Hanani, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:26 -

for the nineteenth H6240 to Mallothi, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:27 -

for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his relatives, twelve H6240;


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