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Lexicon :: Strong's H6240 - ʿeśer

Aa
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§ 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 BoxGen 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8 - And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11

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, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20 - The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - And in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were on his side, overcame the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16 - These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.

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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 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28 - These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7 - And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8 - Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:25 - So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:14 - On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:15 - And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14 - And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:15 - Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:14 - The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:15 - And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:5 - And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.

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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 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:3 - And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:72

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:72 - On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the children of Asher:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:78

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

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