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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 1 / 6 (Gen 5:8–Num 7:78)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8 - So all the days of Seth were 912 H6240 years, and he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - Then Enosh lived 815 H6240 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20 - The water prevailed [fn]fifteen H6240 cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - and Nahor lived 119 H6240 years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - For twelve H6240 years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth H6240 year they rebelled.
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,
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And his son Ishmael was thirteen H6240 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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.
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.
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.

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

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.

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.”

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

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - [fn]You shall keep it until the fourteenth H6240 day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it [fn]at twilight.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth H6240 day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 -

Then they came to Elim where there were twelve H6240 springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 -

Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth H6240 day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an altar [fn]at the foot of the mountain with twelve H6240 memorial stones for the twelve H6240 tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7 -

“Then you shall make curtains of goats’ hair as a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven H6240 curtains in all.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8 - “The length of each curtain shall be [fn]thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven H6240 curtains shall have [fn]the same measurements.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - “And there shall be eight boards with their bases of silver, sixteen H6240 bases; two bases under one board and two bases under another board.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:14 - “The hangings for the one [fn]side of the gate shall be [fn]fifteen H6240 cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:15 - “And for the [fn]other [fn]side there shall be hangings of fifteen H6240 cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - “The stones shall be engraved according to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve H6240, according to their names; they shall be like the engravings of a signet, each according to his name for the twelve H6240 tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14 -

Then he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he [fn]made eleven H6240 curtains in all.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:15 - The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the width of each curtain; the eleven H6240 curtains had [fn]the same measurements.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - There were eight boards with their bases of silver, sixteen H6240 bases, two bases under every board.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:14 - The hangings for the one [fn]side of the gate were fifteen H6240 cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:15 - and so for the [fn]other [fn]side. [fn]On both sides of the gate of the courtyard were hangings of fifteen H6240 cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve H6240, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve H6240 tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - ‘In the [fn]first month, on the fourteenth H6240 day of the month [fn]at twilight is the LORD’S Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - ‘Then on the fifteenth H6240 day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On the fifteenth H6240 of this [fn]seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 -

‘On exactly the fifteenth H6240 day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for seven days, with a [fn]rest on the first day and a [fn]rest on the eighth day.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:5 -

“Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve H6240 [fn]cakes with it; [fn]two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - ‘If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen H6240 shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 -

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron counted, with the leaders of Israel, twelve H6240 men, each of whom was of his father’s household.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3 - When they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered carts and twelve H6240 oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented them in front of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:72 -

On the eleventh H6240 day it was Pagiel the son of Ochran, leader of the sons of Asher;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:78 -

On the twelfth H6240 day it was Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the sons of Naphtali;


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