עֶשֶׂר
ten
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Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
115 distinct verses where H6235 appears in the Absolute state, across 25 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 10 verses
- Genesis 5:14 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
- Genesis 16:3 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
- Genesis 18:32 עֲשָׂרָ֑ה הָ/עֲשָׂרָֽה adj Cardinal number ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 24:10 עֲשָׂרָ֨ה adj Cardinal number ms The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
- Genesis 24:22 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
- Genesis 32:15 עֲשָׂרָ֔ה עֲשָׂרָֽה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals.
- Genesis 42:3 עֲשָׂרָ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- Genesis 45:23 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה וְ/עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
- Genesis 50:22 וָ/עֶ֖שֶׂר conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
- Genesis 50:26 וָ/עֶ֖שֶׂר conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 8 verses
- Exodus 18:21 עֲשָׂרֹֽת adj Cardinal number mp Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 18:25 עֲשָׂרֹֽת adj Cardinal number mp Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 26:1 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
- Exodus 26:16 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.
- Exodus 27:12 עֲשָׂרָ֔ה עֲשָׂרָֽה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exodus 36:8 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
- Exodus 36:21 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
- Exodus 38:12 עֲשָׂרָ֔ה עֲשָׂרָ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 26:26 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 27:7 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
Numbers 17 verses
- Numbers 7:14 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:20 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:26 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:32 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:38 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:44 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:50 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:56 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:62 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:68 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:74 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:80 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
- Numbers 7:86 עֲשָׂרָ֧ה עֲשָׂרָ֛ה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
- Numbers 11:19 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
- Numbers 11:32 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 14:22 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Numbers 29:23 עֲשָׂרָ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 6 verses
- Joshua 15:57 עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
- Joshua 17:5 עֲשָׂרָ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
- Joshua 21:5 עָֽשֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
- Joshua 21:26 עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
- Joshua 22:14 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֤ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
- Joshua 24:29 וָ/עֶ֖שֶׂר conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 2:8 וָ/עֶ֖שֶׂר conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
- Judges 6:27 עֲשָׂרָ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
- Judges 12:11 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
- Judges 20:10 עֲשָׂרָה֩ adj Cardinal number ms and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.
Ruth 2 verses
- Ruth 1:4 כְּ/עֶ֥שֶׂר prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.
- Ruth 4:2 עֲשָׂרָ֧ה adj Cardinal number ms He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down.
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:8 מֵ/עֲשָׂרָ֖ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
- 1 Samuel 17:17 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֥ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;
- 1 Samuel 25:5 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 15:16 עֶ֧שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 18:11 עֲשָׂ֣רָה adj Cardinal number ms Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash.
- 2 Samuel 18:15 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and struck Absalom, and killed him.
- 2 Samuel 19:43 עֶֽשֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20:3 עֶֽשֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
1 Kings 15 verses
- 1 Kings 4:23 עֲשָׂרָ֨ה adj Cardinal number ms ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
- 1 Kings 6:3 עֶ֧שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house.
- 1 Kings 6:23 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:24 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:25 וְ/עֶ֨שֶׂר֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
- 1 Kings 6:26 עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
- 1 Kings 7:10 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:23 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 1 Kings 7:24 עֶ֚שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Under the brim of it round about there were buds which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
- 1 Kings 7:27 עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
- 1 Kings 7:37 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
- 1 Kings 7:38 עֲשָׂרָ֥ה לְ/עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number ms prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin.
- 1 Kings 7:43 עָ֑שֶׂר עֲשָׂרָ֖ה adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;
- 1 Kings 11:31 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה עֲשָׂרָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
- 1 Kings 14:3 עֲשָׂרָ֨ה adj Cardinal number ms Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.
2 Kings 8 verses
- 2 Kings 5:5 עֶ֣שֶׂר וְ/עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
- 2 Kings 13:7 וַ/עֲשָׂ֣רָה וַ/עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
- 2 Kings 15:17 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned] ten years in Samaria.
- 2 Kings 20:9 עֶ֣שֶׂר עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number fs Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
- 2 Kings 20:10 עֶ֣שֶׂר עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number fs Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
- 2 Kings 20:11 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
- 2 Kings 24:14 עשרה עֲשֶׂ֤רֶת adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms cs He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 25:25 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֤ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 7 verses
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 וְ/עֶ֥שֶׂר conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 עֶ֚שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 עֲשָׂרָה֒ adj Cardinal number ms He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
- 2 Chronicles 4:7 עֶ֖שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
- 2 Chronicles 4:8 עֲשָׂרָה֒ adj Cardinal number ms He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
- 2 Chronicles 14:1 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 1:10 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֑ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
- Ezra 8:12 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֖ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.
- Ezra 8:24 עֲשָׂרָֽה adj Cardinal number ms Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 4:12 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.
- Nehemiah 11:1 הָ/עֲשָׂרָ֗ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
Job 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 32:9 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֥ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
- Jeremiah 41:1 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֨ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
- Jeremiah 41:8 וַ/עֲשָׂרָ֨ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their brothers.
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 40:11 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
- Ezekiel 41:2 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
- Ezekiel 42:4 עֶ֨שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
- Ezekiel 45:1 עֲשָׂ֣רָה adj Cardinal number ms Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border of it round about.
- Ezekiel 45:12 עֲשָׂרָ֤ה adj Cardinal number ms The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 1:12 עֲשָׂרָ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
- Daniel 1:14 עֲשָׂרָֽה adj Cardinal number ms So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
- Daniel 1:15 עֲשָׂרָ֔ה adj Cardinal number ms At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.
- Daniel 1:20 עֶ֣שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
Amos 2 verses
- Amos 5:3 עֲשָׂרָ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, And that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
- Amos 6:9 עֲשָׂרָ֧ה adj Cardinal number ms It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, That they shall die.
Haggai 1 verse
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 5:2 עֶ֥שֶׂר adj Cardinal number fs He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."
- Zechariah 8:23 עֲשָׂרָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
About this entry
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עשר (ʻeser) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “ten.” Debuting at Genesis 5:14, it then recurs through the corpus. With 157 verses in 26 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. From the same root come עשר, עשור and עשירי. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H6235 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 →
- 157
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 157 distinct verses.
- 26 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 26 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #262
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 262 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 157 occurrences in the concordance →
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 157 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 80 verses · 51%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 44 verses · 28%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 33 verses · 21%
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: Ten 134×, Thee ten 4×, Was ten 4×
- American Standard Version: Ten 129×, 's ten 3×, Tens 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ten 119×, Weighing ten 12×, And 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ten 117×, And 9×, Ten of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6235 across 173 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 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 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6235 across 174 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 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 H6235 across 160 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 16 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6235 across 149 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 26 further occurrences.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 10 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a ten, only f.pl. tens in phr. שָׂרֵי ע׳ captains of tens Ex 18:21, 25 (E), Dt 1:15. e.g. Exodus 18:21
- 2. ten, enumerating pers. or things, usually without other num.:
- a. עֶ֫שֶׂר bef. n.f.pl., Gn 45:23 + 43 times; after n. †1 K 7:27, 43 + late passages Jos 15:57; 21:5, 26 (all P), 1 Ch 6:46; 2 Ch 4:7; bef. בָּאַמָּה = ten cubits †1 K 6:3, 25, 26; 7:23, 24. e.g. Genesis 45:23
- b. עֲשָׂרָה bef. n.m.pl., Gn 45:23 + 25 times (incl. ע׳ אֲלָפִים = 10,000 2 S 18:3; 2 K 24:14 Kt, עֲשֶׂרֶת Qr); bef. n. coll. בָּקָר 1 K 5:3, רֶכֶב 2 K 13:7; also ע׳ לֶתֶם הַזֶּה 1 S 17:17 these ten loaves, cf. 1 K 14:3; ע׳ אֶלֶף Ez 45:1 read עֶשְׂרִים א׳ 𝔊 Hi Co Berthol Toy; after n.m.pl. †Gn 32:16(×2); 43:3 (all E), Jos 17:5 (JE), Nu 29:23 (P), 1 K 7:43; 2 Ch 4:6, 8; Dn 1:12, 14, 15 †; after n. coll. צֹאן 2 Ch 30:24; n. om., sc. men, †Gn 18:32 (J) Am 5:3; Ezr 8:4; sc. shekels (weight) Gn 24:22 (J) Nu 7:14 + 13 times Nu 7 (ע׳ זָהָב); ע׳ כֶסֶף (sc. shekels, value) 2 S 18:11; sc. measures (of grain) Hg 2:16; c. art. the ten Gn 18:32 (J; sc. men), Ne 11:1 (id. = every ten); as pred. Ex 27:12(×2) = 38:12(×2) (all P)†. e.g. Genesis 45:23
- c. עֲשֶׂ֫רֶת bef. n.m.pl. Ex 34:28 + 18 times, + כַּעֲשֶׂרֶת הַיָּמִים 1 S 25:38 (on art. cf. Weir in Dr, but dub.; prob. om., so 𝔊 We Bu), + ע׳ אֲלָפִים = 10,000 Ju 1:4 + 26 times; n. om. ע׳ כֶּסֶף (sc. shekels) Ju 17:10. e.g. Exodus 34:28
- 3. rarely + other num.:
- a. עֶשֶׂר after larger num., מֵאָה וָע׳ שָׁנִים Gn 50:22, 26; Jos 24:29 (all E), Ju 2:8. e.g. Genesis 50:22
- b. ע׳ before larger num. עֶשֶׂר שָׁנִים וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה Gn 5:14 (P). e.g. Genesis 5:14
- c. עֲשָׂרָה after larger num., מֵאָה וַעֲשָׂרָה הַזְּכָרִים Ezr 8:12, cf. (n. preceding) 1:10. e.g. Ezra 8:12
- d. עֲשָׂרָה after smaller num., שִׁבְעָה שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכָּ֑סֶף Je 32:9 = seventeen shekels; before smaller num. + n. sg. עֲשָׂרָה וַחֲמִשָּׁה שֶׁקֶל Ez 45:12, but read חֲמִשִּׁים, joining עֲשָׂרָה to preceding, 𝔊A Hi Co al. e.g. Jeremiah 32:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. and f. ten (NH = BH; perhaps MI 33 עשרֿ; Ph. עשר, עסר, עשרת, etc.; Arabic عَشْرٌ, عَشَرَةٌ; Sab. עשר SabDenkm No. 11 b, l, 5, 6, עשרת and cpds. HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic ዐሥሩ: ዐሠርቱ; Assyrian ešru; 𝔗 עֲסַר, עַסְרָא; עֲשַׂר, עַשְׂרָא; Syriac ܥܣܰܪ, ܥܶܣܪܳܐ; Nab. עשר, all = ten; Palm. עשרתא the Ten (rulers));—m. (c. n.f.) עֶ֫שֶׂר 2 S 15:16 + 53 times (abs. and cstr. usually indistinguishable); עָ֑שֶׂר 1 K 7:43; 1 Ch 6:46; f. (c. n.m.): abs. עֲשָׂרָה Gn 24:10 + 69 times; cstr. (prob.) עֲשֶׂ֫רֶת 1 S 17:18 + 46 times; f.pl. עֲשָׂרֹת Ex 18:21 + 2 times;—on pl. עֶשְׂרִים, 20, v. infr.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עשר (ʻâsar) (H6237) — to tithe.
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.
עוֹשֶׁר
- plenty, wealth, riches. Ab. IV, 9, v. עִוֹנִי. B. Bath. 9ᵇ בעלי ע׳ wealthy men; a. e.—Gen. R. s. 63 (play on ויעתר, Gen. XXV, 21; cmp. עוּתְרָא) שפך תפלות בע׳ he poured out prayers plentifully; Yalk. ib. 110 כעתר (corr. acc., or בְּעֶתֶר, a Hebr. adapt. of עוֹתַר). e.g. Genesis 25:21
עָשַׁר
- (cmp. עֲשַׁן) to be strong, substantial, wealthy.
- 1. (denom. of (denom. of עָשִׁיר) to become wealthy. B. Bath. 25ᵇ ושיַעֲשִׁיר and he who desires to become rich. Ber. 33ᵃ הֶעֱשִׁירוּ קבעוה וכ׳ when they became wealthy, they made it a custom to recite the Habdalah over a cup. Meïl. 17ᵃ, v. עָנָה II, Hif. Ned. 38ᵃ לא ה׳ משה וכ׳ Moses became rich from the chips of the tablets; a. fr.
- 2. to make rich. Keth. 48ᵃ לאו כל הימנו שיעשיר וכ׳ he is not permitted to enrich his children and throw himself on the charities. Ḥull. 84ᵇ (expl. עשתרת, Deut. VII, 13) שמַעֲשִׁירוֹת את בעליהן Ar. (ed. שמְעַשְּׁרוֹת, Pi.) for they make their owners rich; Yalk. Deut. 848 שמעשרות. Cant. R. to VII, 11 (ref. to תעשרנה, Ps. LXV, 10) אם זכיתם תַּעֲשִׁיֶרנָּה ואם לאו תְּעַשְּׂרֶנָּה וכ׳ if you deserve well (it reads:) ‘thou makest her rich’, if not, ‘thou reducest her to one-tenth’, that she yield you only one-tenth; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:13
- same; v. supra. B. Bath. l. c., v. infra.
- 1. to become rich. Sabb. 119ᵃ; Taan. 9ᵃ (play on עשר תעשר, Deut. XIV, 22) עַשֵּׂר בשביל שתִּתְעַשֵּׂר give tithes in order that thou become rich. B. Bath. l. c. מתוך שמתחכם מִתְעַשֵּׁר for when he grows wise, he will also grow rich; (Ms. M. חכמתו מְעַשַּׁרְתּוֹ his wisdom makes him rich). Pes. 50ᵇ עשרים … שלא יִתְעַשְּׁרוּ שאילמלי מִתְעַשְּׁרִין וכ׳ the men of the Great Assembly held twenty-four fasts to pray that the copyists of sacred books &c. might not become rich, for if they grew rich, they would not write; a. fr.—[2) (b. h.) to pretend to be rich, to pass for a rich man. Men. 85ᵇ. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXIV.] e.g. Deuteronomy 14:22
עֲשַׁר
- ch. same (mostly עֲתַר).
- to become rich. Gitt. 30ᵇ, v. אֲשַׁר.
עשֶׁר
- , v. עוֹשֶׁר
עֶשֶׂר
- (b. h.) ten. Ab. V, 1, v. מַאֲמָר. Ex. R. s. 15, a. fr. עשר מכות (not עשרה) the ten Egyptian plagues. Ib. ע׳ אנשים ten men; a. v. fr.—In compounds עָשָׂר, עֶשְׂרֵה, as אַחַד ע׳ eleven, שְׁנֵים ע׳ twelve &c. R. Hash. I, 1 בחמשה ע׳ בו on the fifteenth day of it (the month of Shebat). Pes. I, 1 אור לארבעה ע׳, v. אוֹר II; a. v. fr.—Pl. עֶשְׂרִים twenty. B. Bath. 107ᵃ ואחד אומר בע׳ and one of the experts says, it is worth twenty (Selaim). Ab. V, 21 בן ע׳ לרריף at the age of twenty years it is time to hunt (for a living); a. v. fr.
עֲשַׂר I
- (also עֲסַר; עַסְרָא) ch. same. Targ. Gen. XLV, 23 (Y. also עֶשֶׂר; O. ed. Berl. עש׳, oth. ed. עס׳); a. fr.—חַד עֲשַׂר, חַד עֲסַר (contr. חַדְסַר) eleven; תרתי סרי twelve &c.—Pl. עַשְׂרִין, עַסְרִין, עֶ׳. Targ. Gen. XXXI, 38. Targ. Num. X, 11 בע׳ on the twentieth; a. fr.—B. Bath. 106ᵇ הויא ע׳ גריוי it contains twenty g’rivas (v. גְּרִיוָא); a. fr.
עָשַׂר
- , Pi. עִשֵּׂר (b. h.;
- 1. to give one-tenth, separate tithes. Sabb. 119ᵃ עַשִּׁר וכ׳, v. עָשַׁר. Maasr. IV, 2 ושכחו לעַשְּׂרָן but had forgotten to pay the tithe of them. Sabb. II, 7 עִשַּׂרְתֶּם have you set aside tithes (of what you intend to use for the Sabbath)? Ib. ספק … אין מְעַשְּׂרִין את הודאי if it is doubtful whether or not night has set in, you must not separate the tithes of what is sure to be subject to tithes (v. דְּמַאי); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מְעוּשָּׂר; f. מְעוּשֶּׂרֶת; pl. מְעוּשָּׂרִים, מְעוּשָּׂרִין; מְעוּשָּׂרוֹת. Bekh. IX, 7 (קפץ אחד) מן המע׳ לתוכן if one of those (lambs) which have been set aside as tithe, leaped among the flock. Ib. הרי אלו מע׳ they (the flock) are considered as tithed; a. fr.
- 2. to reduce to one-tenth. Cant. R. to VII, 11, v. עָשַׁר.
- , Nithpa. נִתְעַשֵּׂר to be tithed. Maasr. l. c. עד שיֵעָשְׂרוּ (Ms. M. שיִתְעַשְּׂרוּ) until they are tithed. Ib. 5 מִתְעַשֶּׂרֶת זרע וכ׳ must be tithed as seed, as vegetables (if the leaves are used) &c. Bekh. IX, 1 ואינן מִתְעַשְּׂרִים מזה על זה and they (large cattle and small cattle) cannot be tithed one for the other. Ib. 53ᵇ אין דין שיִתְעַשְּׂרוּ זה מזה should we not conclude that they may be tithed one for the other?; a. fr.
עֲשַׂר II
- Pa. עַשֵּׂר, עַסֵּר same, to tithe. Targ. Deut. XIV, 22. Ib. XXVI, 12 (Y. II למַעַשְׂרָא Af.).—Yeb. 93ᵃ ע׳ מפירי דביתיה עילויהו he set aside as tithes from the produces in his house on behalf of those (that were to come in). Ib. לעַשּׂוּרֵי ומיכל as regards tithing and eating; a. e.
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Forms in the corpus
The 59 distinct written forms H6235 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6235, 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
Derived from this word
- עשור ʻâsôwr H6218 ten
- עשירי ʻăsîyrîy H6224 tenth
- עשר ʻăsar H6236 ten
- עשר ʻâsâr H6240 teen
- עשרון ʻissârôwn H6241 tithe
- עשרים ʻesrîym H6242 twenty
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 153 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 157 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 5:14
- Exodus 18:21
- Leviticus 26:26
- Numbers 7:14
- Deuteronomy 1:15
- Joshua 15:57
- Judges 1:4
- Ruth 1:4
- 1 Samuel 1:8
- 2 Samuel 15:16
- 1 Kings 5:14
- 2 Kings 5:5
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.