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Lexicon :: Strong's G2269 - ēsau

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Ἠσαῦ
Transliteration
ēsau (Key)
Pronunciation
ay-sow'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin עֵשָׂו (H6215)
mGNT
3x in 1 unique form(s)
TR
3x in 1 unique form(s)
LXX
104x in 1 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: 2:953,311

Strong’s Definitions

Ἠσαῦ Ēsaû, ay-sow'; of Hebrew origin (H6215); Esau, an Edomite:—Esau.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2269 in the following manner: Esau (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2269 in the following manner: Esau (3x).
  1. Esau = "hairy"

    1. was the eldest son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἠσαῦ Ēsaû, ay-sow'; of Hebrew origin (H6215); Esau, an Edomite:—Esau.
STRONGS G2269:
Ἠσαῦ [Ἡσ. Romans 9:13 Rst Tr; Hebrews 12:16 Rst; Hebrews 11:20 Relz], , (עֵשָׂו i. e. hairy [Genesis 25:25; Josephus, Antiquities 1, 18, 1]), indeclinable, Esau, the firstborn son of Isaac: Romans 9:13; Hebrews 11:20; Hebrews 12:16.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
25:25
Romans
9:13; 9:13
Hebrews
11:20; 11:20; 12:16; 12:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2269 matches the Greek Ἠσαῦ (ēsau),
which occurs 104 times in 89 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:25–Gen 35:1)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 -

The first one came out red-looking,[fn] covered with hair[fn] like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 -

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 -

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,[fn] but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 -

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

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He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.[fn]

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Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

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“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die, so what good is a birthright to me? ”

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Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him.

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Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 -

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hethite.

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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

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Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 -

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 -

Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 -

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.

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Jacob replied to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me.”

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Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not? ”

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So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

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Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau? ”

And he replied, “I am.”

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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

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But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you? ”

He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”

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When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”

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So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?[fn] For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me? ”

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But Isaac answered Esau, “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son? ”

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Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ” And Esau wept loudly.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 -

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 -

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.”

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Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

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so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.

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Jacob resumed his journey[fn] and went to the eastern country.[fn]

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Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

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He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.

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“I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 -

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 -

He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 -

“Please rescue me from my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 -

He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 -

And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 -

“then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’ ”

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He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 -

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

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But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

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“I have enough, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what you have.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 -

Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”

But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me,[fn] my lord.”

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That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 -

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”


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