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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 2 / 4 (Jdg 1:4–2Ki 20:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - So Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down 10,000 H6235 men at Bezek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:8 - Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died at the age of 110 H6235.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they struck down at that time about 10,000 H6235 Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - Then she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 H6235 men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - Then Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and 10,000 H6235 men went up [fn]with him; Deborah also went up with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - And Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day in which Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand; has not Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 H6235 men following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten H6235 men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “So now, [fn]come, call out in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 people returned, but 10,000 H6235 remained.

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Then Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel after him; and he judged Israel ten H6235 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:10 - Micah then said to him, “Remain with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten H6235 pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - “And we will take 10 H6235 men out of 100 throughout the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of 1,000, and 1,000 out of 10,000 H6235 in order to take up provisions for the people, that when they come to [fn]Gibeah of Benjamin, they may do to them according to all the disgraceful acts that they have done in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - Then 10,000 H6235 choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle became heavy; but [fn]Benjamin did not know that [fn]calamity was [fn]about to reach them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten H6235 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:2 - Then he took ten H6235 men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten H6235 sons?”

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Then Saul summoned the people and [fn]numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 H6235 men of Judah.

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Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten H6235 loaves and run to the camp to your brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - “You shall also bring these ten H6235 cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back [fn]a token from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5 - So David sent ten H6235 young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, come to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:38 - Now it happened that about ten H6235 days later, Yahweh smote Nabal, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16 - So the king went out and all his household [fn]with him. But the king left ten H6235 concubines to keep the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the people said, “You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not set their heart on us; even if half of us die, they will not set their heart on us. But now [fn]you are worth ten H6235 thousand of us; so now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - Then Joab said to the man who had told him, “Now behold, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten H6235 pieces of silver and a belt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15 - And ten H6235 young men who carried Joab’s armor gathered around and struck Absalom and put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, “[fn]We have ten H6235 parts in the king, therefore [fn]we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not [fn]our word first to have [fn]our king return?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

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Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten H6235 women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten H6235 fat oxen, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen, one hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 H6235 a month in [fn]shifts; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the forced laborers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - And the porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits [fn]in length, [fn]corresponding to the width of the house, and its [fn]depth along the front of the house was ten H6235 cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:23 -

Also in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten H6235 cubits high.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:24 - And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five cubits the other wing of the cherub; from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing were ten H6235 cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:25 - The other cherub was also ten H6235 cubits; both the cherubim were of the same measure and the same form.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:26 - The height of the one cherub was ten H6235 cubits, and so was the other cherub.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:10 -

And the foundation was of precious stones, even large stones, stones of ten H6235 cubits and stones of eight cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 -

And he made the sea of cast metal ten H6235 cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and [fn]thirty cubits in its circumference.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - Now under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten H6235 to a cubit, entirely encircling the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the Sea when it was cast.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:27 -

Then he made the ten H6235 stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:37 - He made the ten H6235 stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form.

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He also made ten H6235 lavers of bronze, one laver held forty baths; each laver was four cubits, and on each of the ten H6235 stands was one laver.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:43 - and the ten H6235 stands with the ten H6235 lavers on the stands;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten H6235 pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten H6235 tribes,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:35 - but I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you—the ten H6235 tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - “And take ten H6235 loaves with you, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king of Aram said, “Go [fn]now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he went and took in his hand [fn]ten H6235 talents of silver and [fn]six thousand shekels of gold and ten H6235 changes of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he did not leave to Jehoahaz any people for the army except 50 horsemen and 10 H6235 chariots and 10,000 H6235 foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had caused them to perish and made them like the dust at threshing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 -

He struck down 10,000 H6235 of Edom in the Valley of Salt and seized Sela by war and named it Joktheel to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:17 -

In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten H6235 years in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten H6235 steps or turn back ten H6235 steps?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - So [fn]Hezekiah [fn]answered, “It is easy for the shadow to stretch forward ten H6235 steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten H6235 steps.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh, and He turned the shadow on the [fn]stairway back ten H6235 steps by which it had gone down on the [fn]stairway of Ahaz.

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