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Lexicon :: Strong's H6235 - ʿeśer

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עֶשֶׂר
Transliteration
ʿeśer
Pronunciation
eh'ser
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1711a

Strong’s Definitions

עֶשֶׂר ʻeser, eh'ser; masculine of term עֲשָׂרָה ʻăsârâh; from H6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits):—ten, (fif-, seven-) teen.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x

The KJV translates Strong's H6235 in the following manner: ten (172x), fifteen (with H2568) (1x), seventeen (with H7651) (1x), ten times (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x
The KJV translates Strong's H6235 in the following manner: ten (172x), fifteen (with H2568) (1x), seventeen (with H7651) (1x), ten times (1x).

  1. ten

    1. ten

    2. with other numbers

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶשֶׂר ʻeser, eh'ser; masculine of term עֲשָׂרָה ʻăsârâh; from H6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits):—ten, (fif-, seven-) teen.
STRONGS H6235: Abbreviations
עֶשֶׂר, עֲשָׂרָה 176 noun masculine and feminine ten (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; perhaps MI33 עשרֿ; Phoenician עשר, עסר, עשרת, etc.; Arabic bdb079607, bdb079608; Sabean עשר SabDenkmNo. 11 b, l. 5, 6, עשרת and compounds HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic bdb079609, bdb079610; Assyrian ešertu; Targum עֲסַר, עַסְרָא; עֲשַׂר, עַשְׂרָא; Syriac bdb079611, bdb079612; Nabataean עשר, all = ten; Palmyrene עשרתא the Ten (rulers)); — masculine (with noun feminine) עֶ֫שֶׂר 2 Samuel 15:16 + 53 times (absolute and construct usually indistinguishable); עָ֑שֶׁר 1 Kings 7:43; 1 Chronicles 6:46; feminine (with noun masculine): absolute עֲשָׂרָה Genesis 24:10 + 69 times; construct (probably) עֲשֶׂ֫רֶת 1 Samuel 17:18 + 46 times; feminine plural עֲשָׂרֹת Exodus 18:21 + 2 times; — on plural עֶשְׂרִים, 20, see below; —
†1. a ten, only feminine plural tens in phrase שָׂרֵי ע׳ captains of tens Exodus 18:21, 25 (E), Deuteronomy 1:15.
2. ten, enumerating person or things, usually without other numbers:
a. עֶ֫שֶׂר before feminine plural noun, Genesis 45:23 + 43 times after noun 1 Kings 7:27, 43 — Joshua 15:57; Joshua 21:5, 26 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:46; 2 Chronicles 4:7; before בָּאַמָּה = ten cubits 1 Kings 6:3, 25, 26; 1 Kings 7:23, 24.
b. עֲשָׂרָה before masculine plural noun, Genesis 45:23 + 25 times (including אֲלָפִים ע׳ = 10,000 2 Samuel 18:3; 2 Kings 24:14 Kt, עֲשֶׂרֶת Qr); before a collective noun בָּקָר 1 Kings 5:3, רֶכֶב 2 Kings 13:7; also לֶחֶם הַוֶּה ע׳ 1 Samuel 17:17 these ten loaves, compare 1 Kings 14:3; אֶלֶף ע׳ Ezekiel 45:1 read עֶשְׂרִיס א׳ Greek Version of the LXX Hi Co Berthol Toy; after masculine plural noun † Genesis 32:16 (twice in verse); Genesis 43:3 (all E), Joshua 17:5 (JE), Numbers 29:23 (P), 1 Kings 7:43; 2 Chronicles 4:6, 8; Daniel 1:12, 14, 15 †; after collective noun צאֹן 2 Chronicles 30:24; noun omitted, that is men, † Genesis 18:32 (J) Amos 5:3; Ezra 8:4; that is shekels (weight) Genesis 24:22 (J) Numbers 7:14 + 13 times Numbers 7 (זָהָב ע׳); כֶסֶף ע׳ (that is shekels, value) 2 Samuel 18:11; that is measures (of grain) Haggai 2:16; with article the ten Genesis 18:23 (J; that is men), Nehemiah 11:1 (id. = every ten); as predicate Exodus 27:12 (twice in verse) = Exodus 38:12 (twice in verse) (all P).
c. עֲשֶׂ֫רֶת before masculine plural noun Exodus 34:28 + 18 times, + כַּעֲשֶׂרֶת הַיָּמִים 1 Samuel 25:38 (on article compare Weir in Dr, but dubious; probably omitted, so Greek Version of the LXX We Bu), + אֲלָפִים ע׳ = 10,000 Judges 1:4 + 26 times; noun omitted כֶּסֶף ע׳ (that is shekels) Judges 17:10.
3. rarely + other number:
a. עֶשֶׂר after larger number, מֵאָה שָׁנִים וָע׳ Genesis 50:22, 26; Joshua 24:29 (all E), Judges 2:8.
b. ע׳ before larger number עֶשֶׂר שָׁנִים וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 5:14 (P).
c. עֲשָׂרָה after larger number, מֵאָה וַעֲשָׂרָה הַזְּכָרִים Ezra 8:12, compare (noun preceding) Ezra 1:10.
d. עֲשָׂרָה after smaller number, שִׁבְעָה שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכָּ֑סֶף Jeremiah 32:9 = seventeen shekels; before smaller number + singular noun עֲשָׂרָה וַחֲמִשָּׁה שֶׁקֶל Ezekiel 45:12, but read חֲמִשִּׁים joining עֲשָׂרָה to preceding, Greek Version of the LXXA Hi Co and others

See related Aramaic BDB entry H6236.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:14; 18:23; 18:32; 24:10; 24:22; 32:16; 43:3; 45:23; 45:23; 50:22; 50:26

Exodus

18:21; 18:21; 18:25; 27:12; 34:28; 38:12

Numbers

7; 7:14; 29:23

Deuteronomy

1:15

Joshua

15:57; 17:5; 21:5; 21:26; 24:29

Judges

1:4; 2:8; 17:10

1 Samuel

17:17; 17:18; 25:38

2 Samuel

15:16; 18:3; 18:11

1 Kings

5:3; 6:3; 6:25; 6:26; 7:23; 7:24; 7:27; 7:43; 7:43; 7:43; 14:3

2 Kings

13:7; 24:14

1 Chronicles

6:46; 6:46

2 Chronicles

4:6; 4:7; 4:8; 30:24

Ezra

1:10; 8:4; 8:12

Nehemiah

11:1

Jeremiah

32:9

Ezekiel

45:1; 45:12

Daniel

1:12; 1:14; 1:15

Amos

5:3

Haggai

2:16

H6235

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Strong's Number H6235 matches the Hebrew עֶשֶׂר (ʿeśer),
which occurs 177 times in 157 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (2Ki 24:14–Dan 1:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:25 - But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:7 - They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics[fn] of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:1 - He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits[fn] long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2 - Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:3 - Under it were figures of gourds,[fn] for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6 - He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:7 - And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:8 - He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:1 - [fn] Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 - But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents[fn] of silver, and 10,000 cors[fn] of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:24 - For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:9 - Jehoiachin was eighteen[fn] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:10 - 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:12 - Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:24 - Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:12 - At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now what was prepared at my expense[fn] for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:1 - Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten[fn] remained in the other towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[fn] of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:10 - the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:3 - These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For ten acres[fn] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:9 - “And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:1 - In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:2 - Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not put them to death with their companions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:7 - At the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave,[fn] forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:4 - And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long,[fn] and their doors were on the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1 - “When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits[fn] long and 20,000[fn] cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:3 - And from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:12 - The shekel shall be twenty gerahs;[fn] twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:14 - and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor[fn] (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths).[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:9 - The portion that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits in length, and 20,000[fn] in breadth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:10 - These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring 25,000 cubits on the northern side, 10,000 cubits in breadth on the western side, 10,000 in breadth on the eastern side, and 25,000 in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the LORD in the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:13 - And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in breadth. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the breadth 20,000.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:18 - The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:12 - “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:14 - So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

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