עֵשָׂוʻÊsâv
proper name, masculine: Esau, elder son of Isaac (Genesis 25:25; Genesis 25:26; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:1; Genesis 27:27)
Pronunciation: ay-sawv' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6215
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 97 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 25:25 The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau.
- Genesis 25:26 Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- Genesis 25:27 As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home.
- Genesis 25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 25:29 One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry.
- Genesis 25:30 Esau said to Jacob, “I’m starved! Give me some of that red stew!” (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means “red.”)
See every passage
- Genesis 25:25, 25:26, 25:27, 25:28, 25:29, 25:30, 25:32, 25:34, 26:34, 27:1, 27:5, 27:6, 27:11, 27:15, 27:19, 27:21, 27:22, 27:23, 27:24, 27:30, 27:32, 27:34, 27:37, 27:38, 27:41, 27:42, 28:5, 28:6, 28:8, 28:9, 32:3, 32:4, 32:6, 32:8, 32:11, 32:13, 32:17, 32:18, 32:19, 33:1, 33:4, 33:9, 33:15, 33:16, 35:1, 35:29, 36:1, 36:2, 36:4, 36:5, 36:6, 36:8, 36:9, 36:10, 36:12, 36:13, 36:14, 36:15, 36:17, 36:18, 36:19, 36:40, 36:43
- Deuteronomy 2:4, 2:5, 2:8, 2:12, 2:22, 2:29
- Joshua 24:4
- 1 Chronicles 1:34, 1:35
- Jeremiah 49:8, 49:10
- Obadiah 1:6, 1:8, 1:9, 1:18, 1:19, 1:21
- Malachi 1:2, 1:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).