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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 1 / 4 (Gen 5:14–Jos 24:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:14 - And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23 - And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:1 - And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:16 - Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12 - And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:21 - The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:12 - And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:14 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:20 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:26 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:32 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:38 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:44 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:50 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:56

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:56 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:62 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:68

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:68 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:74

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:74 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:80

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:80 - One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:86 - The weight of the twelve gold spoons of spice for burning was ten shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place; all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 - Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:22 - Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:23 - And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 - So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:57 - Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:14 - And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:29 - Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.

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