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Lexicon :: Strong's H6235 - ʿeśer

Aa
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 - Then Judah went up, and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:8 - Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died when he was one hundred and ten years old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And at that time they killed about ten thousand men of Moab, all stout men of valor; not a man escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - Then she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; he went up with ten thousand men under his command,[fn] and Deborah went up with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the LORD had said to him. But because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’ ” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:11 - After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel. He judged Israel ten years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - “We will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - And ten thousand select men from all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites[fn] did not know that disaster was upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:2 - And he took ten 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? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:4 - So Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17 - Then Jesse said to his son David, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - “And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers fare, and bring back news of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:38 - Then it happened, after about ten days, that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16 - Then the king went out with all his household after him. But the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the people answered, “You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - So Joab said to the man who told him, “You just saw him! And why did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15 - And ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, and struck and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - Now David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, his concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in seclusion and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fatted oxen, twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - The vestibule in front of the sanctuary[fn] of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of the vestibule[fn] extended ten cubits from the front of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:23 - Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:24 - One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:25 - And the other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of the same size and shape.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:10 - The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:27 - He also made ten carts of bronze; four cubits was the length of each cart, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:37 - Thus he made the ten carts. All of them were of the same mold, one measure, and one shape.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38 - Then he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained forty baths, and each laver was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a laver.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:43 - the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:35 - ‘But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and give it to you—ten tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - “Also take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 - He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:17 - In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - Then Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

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