עֶשֶׂרʻeser
ten
Pronunciation: eh'ser · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6235
Meanings
1. a ten (Exodus 18:21; Exodus 18:25; Deuteronomy 1:15)
2. ten, enumerating person or things, usually without other numbers
a. ten cubits (Genesis 45:23; 1 Kings 7:27; 1 Kings 7:43)
b. these ten loaves, men (Genesis 45:23; 2 Samuel 18:3; 2 Kings 24:14)
c. shekels (Exodus 34:28; 1 Samuel 25:38; Judges 1:4)
3. rarely + other number
d. seventeen shekels (Jeremiah 32:9; Ezekiel 45:12)
Same root
- עָשַׂרʻâsar · H6237to tithe, i.e. to take or give atenth
- עָשׂוֹרʻâsôwr · H6218ten; by abbreviated form ten strings, and so a decachord
- עֲשִׂירִיʻăsîyrîy · H6224tenth; by abbreviation, tenth month or (feminine) part
- עֲשַׂרʻăsar · H6236ten
- עָשָׂרʻâsâr · H6240ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
- עִשָּׂרוֹןʻissârôwn · H6241(fractional) a tenth part
- עֶשְׂרִיםʻesrîym · H6242twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
Where it appears
Appears 176 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 5:14 Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 16:3 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)
- Genesis 18:32 Finally, Abraham said, “Lord, please don’t be angry with me if I speak one more time. Suppose only ten are found there?” And the Lord replied, “Then I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”
- Genesis 24:10 Then he loaded ten of Abraham’s camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham’s brother Nahor had settled.
- Genesis 24:22 Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.
- Genesis 31:7 but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.
See every passage
- Genesis 5:14, 16:3, 18:32, 24:10, 24:22, 31:7, 31:41, 32:15, 42:3, 45:23, 50:22, 50:26
- Exodus 18:21, 18:25, 26:1, 26:16, 27:12, 34:28, 36:8, 36:21, 38:12
- Leviticus 26:26, 27:5, 27:7
- Numbers 7:14, 7:20, 7:26, 7:32, 7:38, 7:44, 7:50, 7:56, 7:62, 7:68, 7:74, 7:80, 7:86, 11:19, 11:32, 14:22, 29:23
- Deuteronomy 1:15, 4:13, 10:4
- Joshua 15:57, 17:5, 21:5, 21:26, 22:14, 24:29
- Judges 1:4, 2:8, 3:29, 4:6, 4:10, 4:14, 6:27, 7:3, 12:11, 17:10, 20:10, 20:34
- Ruth 1:4, 4:2
- 1 Samuel 1:8, 15:4, 17:17, 17:18, 25:5, 25:38
- 2 Samuel 15:16, 18:3, 18:11, 18:15, 19:43, 20:3
- 1 Kings 4:23, 5:14, 6:3, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25, 6:26, 7:10, 7:23, 7:24, 7:27, 7:37, 7:38, 7:43, 11:31, 11:35, 14:3
- 2 Kings 5:5, 13:7, 14:7, 15:17, 20:9, 20:10, 20:11, 24:14, 25:25
- 1 Chronicles 6:61, 29:7
- 2 Chronicles 4:1, 4:2, 4:3, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 14:1, 25:11, 25:12, 27:5, 30:24, 36:9
- Ezra 1:10, 8:12, 8:24
- Nehemiah 4:12, 5:18, 11:1
- Esther 3:9, 9:10, 9:12, 9:13, 9:14
- Job 19:3
- Ecclesiastes 7:19
- Isaiah 5:10, 38:8
- Jeremiah 32:9, 41:1, 41:2, 41:8, 42:7
- Ezekiel 40:11, 41:2, 42:4, 45:1, 45:3, 45:5, 45:12, 45:14, 48:9, 48:10, 48:13, 48:18
- Daniel 1:12, 1:14, 1:15, 1:20
- Amos 5:3, 6:9
- Haggai 2:16
- Zechariah 5:2, 8:23
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).