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Lexicon :: Strong's G2269 - ēsau

Aa
Ἠσαῦ
Transliteration
ēsau (Key)
Pronunciation
ay-sow'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin עֵשָׂו (H6215)
mGNT
3x in 1 unique form(s) TR
3x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
102x in 1 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: 2:953,311

Strong’s Definitions

Ἠσαῦ Ēsaû, ay-sow'; of Hebrew origin (H6215); Esau, an Edomite:—Esau.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2269 in the following manner: Esau (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2269 in the following manner: Esau (3x).

  1. Esau = "hairy"

    1. was the eldest son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἠσαῦ Ēsaû, ay-sow'; of Hebrew origin (H6215); Esau, an Edomite:—Esau.
STRONGS G2269:
Ἠσαῦ [Ἡσ. Romans 9:13 Rst Tr; Hebrews 12:16 Rst; Hebrews 11:20 Relz], ὁ, (עֵשָׂו i. e. hairy [Genesis 25:25; Josephus, Antiquities 1, 18, 1]), indeclinable, Esau, the firstborn son of Isaac: Romans 9:13; Hebrews 11:20; Hebrews 12:16.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
25:25
Romans
9:13; 9:13
Hebrews
11:20; 11:20; 12:16; 12:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2269 matches the Greek Ἠσαῦ (ēsau),
which occurs 102 times in 88 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:25–Gen 35:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so his name was called [fn]Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

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And the boys grew up; Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a [fn]peaceful man, [fn]living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because [fn]he had an appetite for hunted game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29

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And Jacob had cooked stew. And Esau came in from the field, and he was [fn]famished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - Then Esau said to Jacob, “Please give me a swallow from the red stuff—[fn]this red stuff, for I am [fn]famished.” Therefore his name was called [fn]Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - But Jacob said, “[fn]First sell me your birthright.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - And Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob said, “[fn]First swear to me”; so he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - So Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank and rose and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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And Esau was forty years old, and he took as a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

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Now it happened that when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

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Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Then Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - But Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Then Jacob [fn]answered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the [fn]best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Rise up, please, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

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Now it happened that as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - And Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - As Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, O my father!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Then he said, “[fn]Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - But Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his fellow brothers I have given to him [fn]as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - And Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

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So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - Then the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the [fn]sight of his father Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife, besides the wives that he had.

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Then Jacob [fn]took up his journey and came to the land of the sons of the east.

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Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the [fn]country of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord, to Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban and have been delayed until now;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - and I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female slaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.”’”

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Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - And he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp which remains will escape.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me down with the mothers and the children.

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So he spent the night there. Then he took from what [fn]he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - And he commanded the first one in front, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - then you shall say, ‘These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - Then he commanded also the second and the third and all those who followed the flocks, saying, “After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;

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Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children [fn]among Leah and Rachel and the two servant-women.

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Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own.”

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Then Esau said, “Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why do this? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and [fn]live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled [fn]from your brother Esau.”


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