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Lexicon :: Strong's H6215 - ʿēśāv

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עֵשָׂו
Transliteration
ʿēśāv
Pronunciation
ay-sawv'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a form of the pass. part. of עָשָׂה (H6213) in the original sense of handling
Strong’s Definitions

עֵשָׂו ʻÊsâv, ay-sawv'; apparently a form of the passive participle of H6213 in the original sense of handling; rough (i.e. sensibly felt); Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity:—Esau.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 97x

The KJV translates Strong's H6215 in the following manner: Esau (97x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 97x
The KJV translates Strong's H6215 in the following manner: Esau (97x).

  1. Esau = "hairy"

    1. eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob; sold the birthright for food when he was hungry and the divine blessing went to Jacob; progenitor of the Arab peoples

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵשָׂו ʻÊsâv, ay-sawv'; apparently a form of the passive participle of H6213 in the original sense of handling; rough (i.e. sensibly felt); Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity:—Esau.
STRONGS H6215: Abbreviations
עֵשָׂו 97 proper name, masculine Esau, Ησαυ; — Esau, elder son of Isaac Genesis 25:25, 26 + 7 times 25, Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:1 + 24 times Genesis 27:27, 28, Genesis 32:4 [Genesis 32:3] + 15 times Genesis 32; 33; 35, Joshua 24:4 (twice in verse); Malachi 1:2, 3; 1 Chronicles 1:34; identification with אֱדוֺם Genesis 36:1, 8, 19, ancestor of Edomites Genesis 36:9; Genesis 36:43, compare 1 Chronicles 1:35; dwelling in Mt. Seir Genesis 36:8 (25 times in all, Genesis 36) Deuteronomy 2:5; Joshua 24:4; בְּנֵי עֵשָׂו = Edomites Deuteronomy 2:4, 8, 12, 22, 29; עֵשָׂו = Edom Jeremiah 49:8; Obadiah 6, בֵּית עֵשָׂו Jeremiah 49:18; Jeremiah 49:18, הַר עֵשָׂו Jeremiah 49:18; Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 49:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:25; 25:26; 26:34; 27:1; 27:27; 27:28; 32:3; 36; 36:1; 36:8; 36:8; 36:9; 36:19; 36:43

Deuteronomy

2:4; 2:5; 2:8; 2:12; 2:22; 2:29

Joshua

24:4; 24:4

1 Chronicles

1:34; 1:35

Jeremiah

49:8; 49:9; 49:18; 49:18; 49:18; 49:19; 49:21

Obadiah

1:6

Malachi

1:2; 1:3

H6215

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6215 matches the Hebrew עֵשָׂו (ʿēśāv),
which occurs 97 times in 82 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:25–Gen 36:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - The first came out reddish all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau (hairy).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob ([fn]one who grabs by the heel, supplanter). Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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When the boys grew up, Esau was an able and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet and peaceful man, living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Now Isaac loved [and favored] Esau, because [fn]he enjoyed eating his game, but Rebekah loved [and favored] Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Jacob had cooked [reddish-brown lentil] stew [one day], when Esau came from the field and was famished;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - and Esau said to Jacob, “Please, let me have a quick swallow of that red stuff there, because I am exhausted and famished.” For that reason Esau was [also] called Edom (Red).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - Esau said, “Look, I am about to die [if I do not eat soon]; so of what use is this birthright to me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. In this way Esau scorned his birthright.

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When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite as his wives;

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Now when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his elder [and favorite] son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And Esau answered him, “Here I am.”

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But Rebekah overheard what Isaac said to Esau his son; and when Esau had gone to the open country to hunt for game that he might bring back,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to Jacob her [younger and favorite] son, “Listen carefully: I heard your father saying to Esau your brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Listen, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth [skinned] man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau’s best clothes, which were with her in her house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done what you told me to do. Now please, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - But Isaac [wondered and] said to Jacob, “Please come close [to me] so that I may touch you, my son, and determine if you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob approached Isaac, and his father touched him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - He could not recognize him [as Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - But he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” Jacob answered, “I am.”

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Now as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he replied, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and extremely bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - But Isaac replied to Esau, “Listen carefully: I have made Jacob your lord and master; I have given him all his brothers and relatives as servants; and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then, can I do for you, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” Then Esau [no longer able to restrain himself] raised his voice and wept [loudly].

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So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are very near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When these words of her elder son Esau were repeated to Rebekah, she sent for Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Listen carefully, your brother Esau is comforting himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Now Esau noticed that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife for himself from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a prohibition, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - So Esau realized that [his two wives] the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac his father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and [to appease his parents] Esau went to [the family of] Ishmael and took as his wife, in addition to the wives he [already] had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth [Ishmael’s firstborn son].

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He commanded them, saying, “This is what to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says this, “I have been living temporarily with Laban, and have stayed there until now;

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The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - and he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the other camp which is left will escape.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - “Save me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

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So Jacob spent the night there. Then he selected a present for his brother Esau from the livestock he had acquired:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - Then he commanded the one in front, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks to whom you belong, and where you are going, and whose are the animals in front of you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - then you shall say, ‘They are your servant Jacob’s; they are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And he also is behind us.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - And so Jacob commanded the second and the third as well, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is what you shall say to Esau when you meet him;

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Then Jacob looked up, and saw Esau coming with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

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But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and hugged his neck and kissed him, and they wept [for joy].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”

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Then Esau said, “Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But Jacob said, “[fn]What need is there [for it]? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So Esau turned back [toward the south] that day on his way to Seir.

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Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you [in a distinct manifestation] when you fled [years ago] from Esau your brother.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:29 - Isaac’s spirit departed and he died and was [fn]gathered to his people [who had preceded him in death], an old man full of days (satisfied, fulfilled); his sons Esau and Jacob buried him [in the cave of Machpelah with his parents Abraham and Sarah].

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Now these are the records of the descendants of Esau, (that is, Edom).

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Esau took his [three] wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon the Hivite,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:4 - Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:5 - and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau born to him in Canaan.

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