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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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§ 110ii. 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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 6 / 6 (Est 8:12–Zec 1:7)

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth H6240 day of the twelfth H6240 month (that is, the month Adar).
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 -

Now in the twelfth H6240 month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth H6240 [fn]day, when the king’s command and edict were to be put into effect, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it turned out to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained mastery over those who hated them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - The Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth H6240 day of the month Adar and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This was done on the thirteenth H6240 day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth H6240 [fn]day they rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 -

But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth H6240 and the fourteenth H6240 [fn]of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth H6240 [fn]day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth H6240 day of the month Adar a [fn]holiday for rejoicing and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth H6240 day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth H6240 day [fn]of the same month, annually,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen H6240 thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 -

For the music director; according to [fn]Shushan Eduth. A [fn]Mikhtam of David, to teach; [fn]when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

God, You have rejected us. You have [fn]broken us;

You have been angry; restore us!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 -

Now in the fourteenth H6240 year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria marched against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5 - “Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen H6240 years to your [fn]life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth H6240 year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh H6240 year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - “From the thirteenth H6240 year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, [fn]these twenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:1 -

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth H6240 year of Nebuchadnezzar.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:2 - in the eleventh H6240 year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1 -

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven H6240 years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was [fn]Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:5 - So the city was under siege until the eleventh H6240 year of King Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 -

Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth H6240 year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who [fn]was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - The two pillars, the one [fn]sea, and the twelve H6240 bronze bulls that were under [fn]the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD—the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:21 - As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was [fn]eighteen H6240 cubits, and [fn]it was twelve H6240 cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:29 - in the eighteenth H6240 year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 -

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth H6240 month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that [fn]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, [fn]showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:1 -

Now in the eleventh H6240 year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:1 -

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth H6240 of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:20 -

In the eleventh H6240 year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:1 -

In the eleventh H6240 year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:1 -

In the twelfth H6240 year, in the twelfth H6240 month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:17 -

In the twelfth H6240 year, on the fifteenth H6240 of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 -

Now in the twelfth H6240 year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the survivor from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been [fn]taken.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 -

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth H6240 year after the city was [fn]taken, on this very day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - And he measured the width of the [fn]gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen H6240 cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:49 - The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven H6240 cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:16 - “Now the [fn]altar hearth shall be twelve H6240 cubits long by twelve H6240 wide, square in its four sides.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - “And the ledge shall be fourteen H6240 cubits long by fourteen H6240 wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit, and its base shall be a cubit all around; and its steps shall [fn]face east.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 -

“In the first month, on the fourteenth H6240 day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:25 - “In the seventh month, on the fifteenth H6240 day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like these, seven days [fn]for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:13 -

This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: “This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve H6240 tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:35 - The city shall be eighteen H6240 thousand cubits all around; and the name of the city from that day shall be,[fn]The LORD is there.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:2 - So I purchased her for myself for fifteen H6240 shekels of silver, and a [fn]homer and a [fn]lethech of barley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - “Should I not also have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 H6240 people, who do not know the difference between their right hand and their left, as well as many animals?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:7 -

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh H6240 month, that is, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, [fn]as follows:


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