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Lexicon :: Strong's H6240 - ʿeśer

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עֶשֶׂר
Transliteration
ʿeśer
Pronunciation
aw-sawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
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TWOT Reference: 1711b

Strong’s Definitions

עָשָׂר ʻâsâr, aw-sawr'; for H6235; ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth:—(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's H6240 in the following manner: eleven (with H259) (9x), eleven (with H6249) (6x), eleventh (with H6249) (13x), eleventh (with H259) (4x), twelve (with H8147) (106x), twelfth (with H8147) (21x), thirteen (with H7969) (13x), thirteenth (with H7969) (11x), etc to nineteen (152x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's H6240 in the following manner: eleven (with H259) (9x), eleven (with H6249) (6x), eleventh (with H6249) (13x), eleventh (with H259) (4x), twelve (with H8147) (106x), twelfth (with H8147) (21x), thirteen (with H7969) (13x), thirteenth (with H7969) (11x), etc to nineteen (152x).

  1. ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers)

    1. used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָשָׂר ʻâsâr, aw-sawr'; for H6235; ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth:—(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).
STRONGS H6240: Abbreviations
עָשָׂר 203, עֶשְׂרֵה 144 noun ten, only after units to make numbers 11-19, both cardinal and ordinal; עֶשְׂרֵה with noun feminine, עָשָׂר with noun masculine, thus:
1. eleven:
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Genesis 32:23 + 2 times
b. אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) 2 Kings 23:36 + 7 times; also = eleventh 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29.
c. עַשְׁתֵּי עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Numbers 29:20; ordinal Deuteronomy 1:3 + 7 times
d. עַשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) Exodus 26:7 + 4 times; ordinal Jeremiah 1:3 + 4 times
2. twelve:
a. שְׁנֵי (ם) עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Genesis 35:22 + 80 times ordinal 1 Kings 19:19 + 12 times
b. שְׁתֵּי(ם) עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) Exodus 24:4 + 31 times; ordinal 2 Kings 8:25 + 6 times
3. thirteen:
a. שְׁלשָׁה עָשָׂר (with masculine noun) Numbers 29:14 + 2 times; ordinal Esther 3:12 + 7 times
b. שְׁלשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה (with feminine noun) 1 Kings 7:1 + 9 times; ordinal Genesis 14:4 + 2 times
4. fourteen:
a. אַרְכָּעָה עָשָׂר Genesis 46:22 + 13 times; ordinal Exodus 12:6 + 17 times
b. אַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 31:41 + 5 times; ordinal 2 Kings 18:13 + 3 times
5. fifteen:
a. חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר Hosea 3:2 + 3 times; ordinal Exodus 16:1 + 14 times
b. חֲמֵשֶׁת עָשָׂר Judges 8:10; 2 Samuel 19:18.
c. חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה 2 Kings 14:17 + 9 times; ordinal † 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 15:10. — See also עֶשֶׂר 2d.
6. sixteen:
a. שִׁשָּׁה עָשָׂר Exodus 26:25 + 6 times; ordinal 1 Chronicles 24:14 + 2 times
b. שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 46:18 + 13 times
7. seventeen:
a. שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר 1 Chronicles 7:11 + 2 times; ordinal Genesis 7:11 + 3 times
b. שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 37:2 + 4 times; ordinal 1 Kings 22:52; 2 Kings 16:1. — See also עֶשֶׂר 3d.
8. eighteen:
a. שְׁמֹנָה (שְׂמֹנַת) עָשָׂר Genesis 14:4 + 10 times; ordinal 1 Chronicles 24:15; 1 Chronicles 25:25.
b. שְׁמֹנֶה עֶשְׂרֵה Judges 3:14 + 6 times; ordinal 1 Kings 15:1 + 8 times
†9. nineteen:
a. תִּשְׁעָה עָשָׂר 2 Samuel 2:30; ordinal 1 Chronicles 24:16; 1 Chronicles 25:26.
b. תְּשַׁע עֶשְׂרֵה Genesis 11:25; Joshua 19:38; ordinal 2 Kings 25:8 = Jeremiah 52:12.
These numbers usually take singular of the nouns most often used, שָׁנָה, יוֺם, חֹדֶשׁ, compare (sometimes) אִישׁ, אַמָּךְ, etc.; otherwise plural; rarely (late usage) they follow noun, which is then usually plural, e.g. Numbers 29:30; Joshua 15:51 (P), Ezra 8:35 (twice in verse); Esther 3:13; Esther 8:5, etc. (even שָׁנִים שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה Nah Esther 5:14), but שָׁנָה precedes ordinal 1 Kings 6:38, שְׁנַת 1 Kings 15:1 + 8 times, so יוֺם (with ordinal) 2 Chronicles 29:17 + 5 times Esther 9; also יוֺם and (שְׁנַת) שָׁנָה both precede and following ordinal Numbers 7:72, 78; 2 Kings 8:25; 2 Kings 9:29; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:1; Jeremiah 32:1; 2 Kings 25:8 = Jeremiah 52:12. — See also Köii. 1. 211 ff. DaSynt. § 37 a, also R. 1, 2. Ges§§ 92d, e, 134, and especially HernerSynt. d. Zahlw-rter im AT {1893}; on form in הֵ֯ (prob for יַ֯), Ol§ 110 Köii. 1, 427 WSG 138.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:11; 11:25; 14:4; 14:4; 31:41; 32:23; 35:22; 37:2; 46:18; 46:22

Exodus

12:6; 16:1; 24:4; 26:7; 26:25

Numbers

7:72; 7:78; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 29:14; 29:20; 29:30

Deuteronomy

1:3

Joshua

15:51; 19:38

Judges

3:14; 8:10

2 Samuel

2:30; 19:18

1 Kings

6:38; 6:38; 7:1; 15:1; 15:1; 19:19; 22:52

2 Kings

8:25; 8:25; 9:29; 9:29; 14:17; 14:23; 14:23; 16:1; 16:1; 18:13; 23:36; 25:8; 25:8

1 Chronicles

7:11; 24:14; 24:15; 24:16; 25:25; 25:26

2 Chronicles

15:10; 29:17

Ezra

8:35

Esther

3:12; 3:13; 5:14; 8:5; 9

Jeremiah

1:3; 32:1; 52:12; 52:12

Hosea

3:2

H6240

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Strong's Number H6240 matches the Hebrew עֶשֶׂר (ʿeśer),
which occurs 338 times in 292 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 5:8–Num 7:78)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8 - And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20 - Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he led out his trained servants, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16 - These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their hamlets and their encampments -- twelve princes of their peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - -- These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - -- These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28 - All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them; and he blessed them: every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - And they came to Elim; and twelve springs of water were there, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - And they journeyed from Elim, and the whole assembly of the children of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7 - And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8 - The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for the eleven curtains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - And there shall be eight boards, and their bases, of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:14 - the hangings on the one wing, of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their bases three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:15 - And on the other wing hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their bases three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal: every one according to his name shall they be for the twelve tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14 - And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:15 - The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain -- one measure for the eleven curtains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - and there were eight boards, and their silver bases: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:14 - the hangings on the one wing of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their bases three;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:15 - and on the other wing, on this side as on that side of the gate of the court, hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their bases three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to Jehovah; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths seven days to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the produce of the land, ye shall celebrate the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day there shall be rest, and on the eighth day there shall be rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:5 - And thou shalt take fine wheaten flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof; each cake shall be of two tenths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - And if it be from sixty years old and above, if it be a male, thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These are those that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, the twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3 - and they brought their offering before Jehovah, six covered waggons, and twelve oxen; a waggon for two princes, and an ox for each; and they presented them before the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:72

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:72 - On the eleventh day, the prince of the children of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:78

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:78 - On the twelfth day, the prince of the children of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.

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