עֵשָׂו
Esau
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6215 appears — 82 distinct verses across 7 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 63 verses
- Genesis 25:25 עֵשָֽׂו n Proper The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
- Genesis 25:26 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 25:27 עֵשָׂ֗ו n Proper The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- Genesis 25:28 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 25:29 עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
- Genesis 25:30 עֵשָׂ֜ו n Proper Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
- Genesis 25:32 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"
- Genesis 25:34 לְ/עֵשָׂ֗ו עֵשָׂ֖ו prep + n Proper n Proper Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 26:34 עֵשָׂו֙ n Proper When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 27:1 עֵשָׂ֣ו n Proper It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
- Genesis 27:5 עֵשָׂ֖ו עֵשָׂו֙ n Proper n Proper Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
- Genesis 27:6 עֵשָׂ֥ו n Proper Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
- Genesis 27:11 עֵשָׂ֤ו n Proper Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
- Genesis 27:15 עֵשָׂ֜ו n Proper Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
- Genesis 27:19 עֵשָׂ֣ו n Proper Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:21 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 27:22 עֵשָֽׂו n Proper Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
- Genesis 27:23 עֵשָׂ֥ו n Proper He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
- Genesis 27:24 עֵשָׂ֑ו n Proper He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."
- Genesis 27:30 וְ/עֵשָׂ֣ו conj + n Proper It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 27:32 עֵשָֽׂו n Proper Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
- Genesis 27:34 עֵשָׂו֙ n Proper When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
- Genesis 27:37 לְ/עֵשָׂ֗ו prep + n Proper Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:38 עֵשָׂ֜ו עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper n Proper Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 27:41 עֵשָׂו֙ עֵשָׂ֜ו n Proper n Proper Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
- Genesis 27:42 עֵשָׂ֖ו עֵשָׂ֣ו n Proper n Proper The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
- Genesis 28:5 וְ/עֵשָֽׂו conj + n Proper Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
- Genesis 28:6 עֵשָׂ֗ו n Proper Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 28:8 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.
- Genesis 28:9 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
- Genesis 32:3 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
- Genesis 32:4 לְ/עֵשָׂ֑ו prep + n Proper He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
- Genesis 32:6 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
- Genesis 32:8 עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
- Genesis 32:11 עֵשָׂ֑ו n Proper Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
- Genesis 32:13 לְ/עֵשָׂ֥ו prep + n Proper He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
- Genesis 32:17 עֵשָׂ֣ו n Proper He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 32:18 לְ/עֵשָׂ֑ו prep + n Proper Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
- Genesis 32:19 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
- Genesis 33:1 עֵשָׂ֣ו n Proper Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 33:4 עֵשָׂ֤ו n Proper Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
- Genesis 33:9 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
- Genesis 33:15 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 33:16 עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
- Genesis 35:1 עֵשָׂ֥ו n Proper God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
- Genesis 35:29 עֵשָׂ֥ו n Proper Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- Genesis 36:1 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).
- Genesis 36:2 עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
- Genesis 36:4 לְ/עֵשָׂ֖ו prep + n Proper Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
- Genesis 36:5 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 36:6 עֵשָׂ֡ו n Proper Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his cattle, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
- Genesis 36:8 עֵשָׂו֙ עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper n Proper Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
- Genesis 36:9 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
- Genesis 36:10 עֵשָׂ֑ו עֵשָׂ֔ו עֵשָֽׂו n Proper n Proper n Proper these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
- Genesis 36:12 עֵשָׂ֔ו עֵשָֽׂו n Proper n Proper Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:13 עֵשָֽׂו n Proper These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:14 עֵשָׂ֑ו לְ/עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper prep + n Proper These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
- Genesis 36:15 עֵשָׂ֑ו עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper n Proper These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
- Genesis 36:17 עֵשָׂ֔ו עֵשָֽׂו n Proper n Proper These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:18 עֵשָׂ֔ו עֵשָֽׂו n Proper n Proper These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
- Genesis 36:19 עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs. The same is Edom.
- Genesis 36:40 עֵשָׂו֙ n Proper These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
- Genesis 36:43 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
Deuteronomy 6 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:4 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
- Deuteronomy 2:5 לְ/עֵשָׂ֔ו prep + n Proper don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:8 עֵשָׂ֗ו n Proper So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
- Deuteronomy 2:12 עֵשָׂ֣ו n Proper The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Deuteronomy 2:22 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
- Deuteronomy 2:29 עֵשָׂ֗ו n Proper as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 49:8 עֵשָׂ֛ו n Proper Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.
- Jeremiah 49:10 עֵשָׂ֗ו n Proper But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
Obadiah 6 verses
- Obadiah 1:6 עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
- Obadiah 1:8 עֵשָֽׂו n Proper "Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
- Obadiah 1:9 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
- Obadiah 1:18 עֵשָׂו֙ עֵשָׂ֔ו n Proper n Proper The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
- Obadiah 1:19 עֵשָׂ֗ו n Proper Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
- Obadiah 1:21 עֵשָׂ֑ו n Proper Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.
Malachi 2 verses
- Malachi 1:2 עֵשָׂ֤ו n Proper "I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;
- Malachi 1:3 עֵשָׂ֖ו n Proper but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
About this entry
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At its core, עשו (ʻÊsâv) means “Esau.” Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (77% of all occurrences). Spanning 82 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 25:25. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6215 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 82
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 82 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #432
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 432 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 82 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 63 verses 77%
- Deuteronomy 6 verses 7%
- Obadiah 6 verses 7%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 82 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 69 verses · 84%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 13%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Esau 76×, Esau's 12×, Behold esau 2×
- American Standard Version: Esau 84×
- Berean Standard Bible: Esau 75×, Esau’s 12×, Am esau 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Esau 94×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6215 across 97 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6215 across 97 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6215 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6215 across 95 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Esau = "hairy"
- eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob…
Word origin
n.pr.m. Esau, Ησαυ;—Esau, elder son of Isaac Gn 25:25, 26 + 7 times 25, 26:34; 27:1 + 24 times 27, 28; 32:4 + 15 times 32, 33, 35; Jos 24:4(×2) Mal 1:2, 3; 1 Ch 1:34; identif. with אֱדוֹם Gn 36:1, 8, 19, ancestor of Edomites v 9, 43, cf. 1 Ch 1:35; dwelling in Mt. Seir Gn 36:8 (25 times in all, Gn 36) Dt 2:5; Jos 24:4; בְּנֵי עֵשָׂו = Edomites Dt 2:4, 8, 12, 22, 29; עֵשָׂו = Edom Je 49:8; Ob 6, בֵּית עֵשָׂו v 18(×2), הַר עֵשָׂו v 8, 9, 19, 21.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עשה (ʻâsâh) (H6213) — to do.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֵשָׂו
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Esau, son of Isaac; (gent. noun) Esau (Edom), frequ. a disguise for Rome. Yoma 38ᵇ רשע דר … זה ע׳ a wicked man that dwelt between two righteous men without adopting their doings, that is Esau. Gitt. 57ᵇ (ref. to Gen. XXVII, 22) אין לך … מזרעו של ע׳ there is no successful war in which descendants of Esau have no part. Gen. R. s. 2 ויהי ערב ערבו של ע׳ ‘and it was evening’ (Gen. I, 5), the evening (decline) of Esau (Rome). Koh. R. to V, 7 אם ראית ע׳ בכרך הגדול של רומי עושק וכ׳ when thou seest Esau in the large city of Rome oppressing the poor and robbing the indigent &c.; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 27:22
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 20 distinct written forms H6215 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֵשָׂ֔ו | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:4 | 16 |
| עֵשָׂ֖ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:28 | 15 |
| עֵשָֽׂו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:25 | 9 |
| עֵשָׂ֑ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 27:24 | 8 |
| עֵשָׂ֛ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:29 | 7 |
| עֵשָׂו֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 26:34 | 7 |
| עֵשָׂ֗ו | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:8 | 6 |
| עֵשָׂ֣ו | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:12 | 6 |
| עֵשָׂ֜ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:30 | 4 |
| עֵשָׂ֥ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 27:6 | 4 |
| עֵשָׂ֤ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 27:11 | 3 |
| לְ/עֵשָׂ֑ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 32:4 | 2 |
| לְ/עֵשָׂ֔ו | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:5 | 2 |
| לְ/עֵשָׂ֗ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:34 | 2 |
| וְ/עֵשָׂ֣ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 27:30 | 1 |
| וְ/עֵשָֽׂו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 28:5 | 1 |
| לְ/עֵשָׂ֖ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:4 | 1 |
| לְ/עֵשָׂ֜ו | Noun, Proper | Joshua 24:4 | 1 |
| לְ/עֵשָׂ֥ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 32:13 | 1 |
| עֵשָׂ֡ו | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6215, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בעשיה Baʻăsêyâh H1202 Baaseiah
- יעשו Yaʻăsûw H3299 Jaasau
- יעשיאל Yaʻăsîyʼêl H3300 Jasiel
- מעשי Maʻăsay H4640 Maasiai
- עשהאל ʻĂsâhʼêl H6214 Asahel
- עשיאל ʻĂsîyʼêl H6221 Asiel
- עשיה ʻĂsâyâh H6222 Asaiah
- Ησαυ Ēsaû G2269 Esau
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Esau). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Hairy, Rebekah's first-born twin son (Gen. 25:25). The name of Edom, "red", was also given to him from his conduct in connection with the red lentil "pottage" for which he sold his birthright (30, 31). The circumstances connected with his birth foreshadowed the enmity which afterwards subsisted between the twin brothers and the nations they founded (25:22, 23, 26). In process of time Jacob, following his natural bent, became a shepherd; while Esau, a "son of the desert," devoted himself to the perilous and toilsome life of a huntsman. On a certain occasion, on returning from the chase, urged by the cravings of hunger, Esau sold his birthright to his brother, Jacob, who thereby obtained the covenant blessing (Gen. 27:28, 29, 36; Heb. 12:16, 17). He afterwards tried to regain what he had so recklessly parted with, but was defeated in his attempts through the stealth of his brother (Gen. 27:4, 34, 38).
At the age of forty years, to the great grief of his parents, he married (Gen. 26:34, 35) two Canaanitish maidens, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Bashemath, the daughter of Elon. When Jacob was sent away to Padan-aram, Esau tried to conciliate his parents (Gen. 28:8, 9) by marrying his cousin Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. This led him to cast in his lot with the Ishmaelite tribes; and driving the Horites out of Mount Seir, he settled in that region. After some thirty years' sojourn in Padan-aram Jacob returned to Canaan, and was reconciled to Esau, who went forth to meet him (33:4). Twenty years after this, Isaac their father died, when the two brothers met, probably for the last time, beside his grave (35:29). Esau now permanently left Canaan, and established himself as a powerful and wealthy chief in the land of Edom (q.v.).
Long after this, when the descendants of Jacob came out of Egypt, the Edomites remembered the old quarrel between the brothers, and with fierce hatred they warred against Israel.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(hairy), the eldest son of Isaac, and twin-brother of Jacob. The singular appearance of the child at his birth originated the name. (Genesis 25:25) Esau's robust frame and "rough" aspect were the types of a wild and daring nature. He was a thorough Bedouin, a "son of the desert." He was much loved by his father, and was of course his heir, but was induced to sell his birthright to Jacob. Mention of his unhappy marriages may be found in (Genesis 26:34) The next episode in the life of Esau is the loss of his father's covenant blessing, which Jacob secured through the craft of his mother, and the anger of Esau, who vows vengeance. (Genesis 27:1) ... Later he marries a daughter of Ishmael, (Genesis 28:8,9) and soon after establishes himself in Mount Seir, where he was living when Jacob returned from Padan-aram rich and powerful, and the two brothers were reconciled. (Genesis 33:4) Twenty years thereafter they united in burying Isaac's body in the cave of Machpelah. Of Esau's subsequent history nothing is known; for that of his descendants see Edom, Idumaea Or Idumea.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
he that acts or finishes
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Septuagint verse parallels
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