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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§ 110 Köii. 1, 427 WSG 138.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

H6240

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Strong's Number H6240 matches the Hebrew עֶשֶׂר (ʿeśer),
which occurs 24 times in 23 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8 - So all the days of Seth were 912 H6240 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - Then Enosh lived 815 H6240 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth H6240 day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the [fn]floodgates of the sky were opened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20 - The water prevailed [fn]fifteen H6240 cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth H6240 day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - and Nahor lived 119 H6240 years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - For twelve H6240 years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth H6240 year they rebelled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - And in the fourteenth H6240 year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and [fn]defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in [fn]Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he [fn]led out his trained men, born in his house, numbering 318 H6240, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - “As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve H6240 princes, and I will make him into a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And his son Ishmael was thirteen H6240 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16 - These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve H6240 princes according to their [fn]tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - “For these twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen H6240 years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 -

Now he got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven H6240 children, and crossed the shallow place of the Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 -

And it came about, while Israel was living in that land, that Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Now there were twelve H6240 sons of Jacob—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the records of the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when he was seventeen H6240 years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 -

Then he [fn]had yet another dream, and informed his brothers of it, and said, “Behold, I have [fn]had yet another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven H6240 stars were bowing down to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - But they said, “Your servants are twelve H6240 brothers in all, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - ‘We are twelve H6240 brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen H6240 persons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen H6240 persons in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen H6240 years; so the [fn]length of Jacob’s life was 147 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28 -

All these are the twelve H6240 tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them [fn]when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one [fn]with the blessing appropriate to him.

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