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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, so they named him Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - So Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me some of the red stuff - yes, this red stuff - because I'm starving!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - "Look," said Esau, "I'm about to die! What use is the birthright to me?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:5 - Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - "But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took her older son Esau's best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I've done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - Then he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" "I am," Jacob replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - His father Isaac asked, "Who are you?" "I am your firstborn son," he replied, "Esau!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father's words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac replied to Esau, "Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, "Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!" Then Esau wept loudly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, "The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He commanded them, "This is what you must say to my lord Esau: 'This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - The messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - "If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 - Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - He instructed the servant leading the first herd, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - then you must say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, "You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - So Esau said, "Let me leave some of my men with you." "Why do that?" Jacob replied. "My lord has already been kind enough to me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So that same day Esau made his way back to Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:29 - Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 - What follows is the account of Esau (also known as Edom).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 - Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

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

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

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