עֶשְׂרִים
twenty
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
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.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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Ezra 20 verses
- Ezra 2:21 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
- Ezra 2:23 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
- Ezra 2:26 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Ezra 2:27 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
- Ezra 2:28 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
- Ezra 2:32 וְ/עֶשְׂרִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
- Ezra 2:33 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
- Ezra 2:41 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
- Ezra 2:67 וְ/עֶשְׂרִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp their camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
- Ezra 3:8 עֶשְׂרִ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.
- Ezra 8:11 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
- Ezra 8:19 עֶשְׂרִֽים adj Cardinal number bp and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
- Ezra 8:20 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֑ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.
- Ezra 8:27 עֶשְׂרִ֔ים adj Cardinal number bp and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
- Ezra 10:9 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Nehemiah 20 verses
- Nehemiah 1:1 עֶשְׂרִ֔ים adj Cardinal number bp The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
- Nehemiah 2:1 עֶשְׂרִ֛ים adj Cardinal number bp It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [before] sad in his presence.
- Nehemiah 5:14 עֶשְׂרִ֗ים adj Cardinal number bp Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
- Nehemiah 6:15 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
- Nehemiah 7:16 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:17 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:22 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:23 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.
- Nehemiah 7:27 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 7:30 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:31 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:32 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
- Nehemiah 7:35 וְ/עֶשְׂרִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
- Nehemiah 7:37 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:68 וְ/עֶשְׂרִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
- Nehemiah 7:69 ו/עשרים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
- Nehemiah 9:1 עֶשְׂרִ֨ים adj Cardinal number bp Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.
- Nehemiah 11:8 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
- Nehemiah 11:12 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
- Nehemiah 11:14 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
Esther 3 verses
- Esther 1:1 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
- Esther 8:9 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֮ וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] of it; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
- Esther 9:30 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth,
Jeremiah 5 verses
- Jeremiah 25:3 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
- Jeremiah 52:1 עֶשְׂרִ֨ים adj Cardinal number bp Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
- Jeremiah 52:28 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
- Jeremiah 52:30 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֮ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
- Jeremiah 52:31 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
Ezekiel 29 verses
- Ezekiel 4:10 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
- Ezekiel 8:16 כְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
- Ezekiel 11:1 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
- Ezekiel 29:17 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 40:1 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
- Ezekiel 40:13 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.
- Ezekiel 40:21 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:25 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:29 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:30 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:33 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:36 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:49 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
- Ezekiel 41:2 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp 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 41:4 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp He measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.
- Ezekiel 41:10 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
- Ezekiel 42:3 הָֽ/עֶשְׂרִ֗ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
- Ezekiel 45:1 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp 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 45:3 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Of this measure shall you measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
- Ezekiel 45:5 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty chambers.
- Ezekiel 45:6 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 45:12 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
- Ezekiel 48:8 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֨ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:9 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
- Ezekiel 48:10 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:13 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
- Ezekiel 48:15 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 48:20 וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering four-square, with the possession of the city.
- Ezekiel 48:21 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 10:4 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
- Daniel 10:13 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Haggai 6 verses
- Haggai 1:15 עֶשְׂרִ֧ים adj Cardinal number bp in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
- Haggai 2:1 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
- Haggai 2:10 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
- Haggai 2:16 עֶשְׂרִ֔ים עֶשְׂרִֽים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
- Haggai 2:18 עֶשְׂרִ֨ים adj Cardinal number bp 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.
- Haggai 2:20 בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֧ים prep + Adjective Cardinal number bp The Word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 1:7 עֶשְׂרִ֨ים adj Cardinal number bp On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
- Zechariah 5:2 עֶשְׂרִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp 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."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עשרים (ʻesrîym) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “twenty.” Where the King James Version says “twenty,” newer translations reach for “were” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 282 verses — common. Debuting at Genesis 6:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include עשר, עשור and עשירי. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6242 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 →
- 282
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 282 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #159
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 159 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 282 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 39 verses 14%
- Numbers 32 verses 11%
- Ezekiel 29 verses 10%
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 282 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 111 verses · 39%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 105 verses · 37%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 66 verses · 23%
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: Twenty 215×, Twentieth 34×, Were twenty 21×
- American Standard Version: Twenty 210×, Twentieth 32×, Was twenty 18×
- Berean Standard Bible: Twenty 100×, Twenty-five 15×, Twenty-two 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were 46×, Twenty 43×, And 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6242 across 314 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6242 across 312 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 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 H6242 across 199 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 26 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 116 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6242 across 158 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 14 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 164 further occurrences.
18 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 18 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.
- I. as cardinal:
- 1. without other num.:
- a. usually sq. n.s. (especially שָׁנָה, אִישׁ, אַמָּה, etc.) Gn 31:38 1 S 14:14 Ex 38:18 + 64 times, + עֶשְׂרִים אֶלֶף 20,000 1 Ch 18:4 + 7 times + Ez 45:1 (reading עֶשְׂרִים אָ֑לֶף, v. עֶשֶׂר 2 b). e.g. Genesis 31:38
- b. sq. n.pl. 2 S 3:20; Ex 36:23, 24, 25 + 4 times. e.g. 2 Samuel 3:20
- c. sq. n.s. coll. 1 K 5:3. e.g. 1 Kings 5:3
- d. n.pl. precedes Gn 32:15(×2), 16; 2 Ch 3:3 + 6 times e.g. Genesis 32:15
- e. n. om. Gn 18:31(×2) (הָע׳), 1 K 6:2 + 6 times, as pred. Ex 27:10(×2), 11(×2) + 4 times. e.g. Genesis 18:31
- f. + בָּאַמָּה Zc 5:2. e.g. Zechariah 5:2
- 2. + other num.:
- a. c. units, usually 20 + (c. וְ) unit + n.s. Ju 10:2, 3 1 K 14:20 + 58 times (incl. 20 + 1 × 1000, etc., 27 times); n. om. Jos 15:32 + 2 times pred.; less often unit + 20 + n.s. Gn 11:24 Ex 38:24 Nu 8:24 (all P) + 27 times; unit + 20 + בָּאַמָּה Ez 40:21 Ex 26:2; 36:9 (both P). e.g. Judges 10:2
- b. 20 + unit + n.pl. Nu 7:8(×2) (P), 1 Ch 2:22 + 3 times Chr. e.g. Numbers 7:8
- c. n.pl. + 20 + unit Jos 19:30 1 Ch 12:29 (van d. H. v 28). e.g. Joshua 19:30
- d. c. hundreds, 20 usually foll.; sq. n.s. 1 K 9:14 Gn 6:3 Dt 31:2 + 7 times; n. om. 2 Ch 3:4 Ezr 2:32 = Ne 7:35; 20 + 100 (n. om.) Nu 7:86. e.g. 1 Kings 9:14
- e. n.pl. + 100 + 20 1 Ch 15:5, 6;—cf. further מֵאָה. e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:5
- 1. without other num.:
- II. as ordinal:
- 1. 20 alone, בִּשְׁנַת ע׳ in the twentieth year 1 K 15:9 + 4 times; n. om. Nu 10:11 + 3 times. e.g. 1 Kings 15:9
- 2.
- a. 20 + unit + ns. Ez 29:17; 40:1. e.g. Ezekiel 29:17
- b. ns. + 20 + unit Hg 1:15; 2 Ch 7:10 +; ns. + unit + 20 Ex 12:8; בִּשְׁנַת + 20 + unit 1 K 16:10, etc.—Vid. reff. sub עֶשֶׂר. e.g. Haggai 1:15
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.pl.indecl. (a) twenty (ancient pl. of עֶשֶׂר Prä BAS i. 376; NH = BH; Arabic عِشْرُونَ; Assyrian ešrâ; Sab. עשרי HomChrest. 48; Ethiopic ዕሥራ: Aramaic עשרין, ܥܶܣܪܝܺܢ; Nab. עשרין);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עשר (ʻeser) (H6235) — ten.
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.
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.
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 36 distinct written forms H6242 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 10:4 | 77 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֤ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 30:13 | 34 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 10:13 | 29 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֨ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 45:12 | 22 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Esther 1:1 | 20 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 26:2 | 17 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:21 | 15 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֔ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 27:10 | 11 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Esther 8:9 | 10 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 1:9 | 9 |
| עֶשְׂרִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 8:19 | 9 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֛ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 34:7 | 6 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֧ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Haggai 1:15 | 6 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 45:12 | 5 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֑ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 18:31 | 5 |
| בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:1 | 4 |
| בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Haggai 2:1 | 4 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֨ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 31:2 | 4 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֖ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 26:20 | 4 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֔ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 24:17 | 3 |
| עֶשְׂרִים֩ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 5:11 | 3 |
| בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֤ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 29:17 | 2 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֑ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 8:20 | 2 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִים֮ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Esther 8:9 | 2 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֗ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 27:11 | 2 |
| בְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֧ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Haggai 2:20 | 1 |
| הָ/עֶשְׂרִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 24:16 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עֶשְׂרִ֗ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 42:3 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עֶשְׂרִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 18:31 | 1 |
| ו/עשרים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 7:69 | 1 |
| וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֧ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:20 | 1 |
| כְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 14:14 | 1 |
| כְּ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 8:16 | 1 |
| לְ/עֶשְׂרִים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 25:27 | 1 |
| עֶשְׂרִ֛ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 2:1 | 1 |
| עֶשְׂרִים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 27:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6242, 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
- עשור ʻâsôwr H6218 ten
- עשירי ʻăsîyrîy H6224 tenth
- עשר ʻăsar H6236 ten
- עשר ʻâsâr H6240 teen
- עשרון ʻissârôwn H6241 tithe
Derived from this word
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 254 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 282 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 6:3
- Exodus 12:18
- Leviticus 27:3
- Numbers 1:3
- Deuteronomy 31:2
- Joshua 15:32
- Judges 4:3
- 1 Samuel 7:2
- 2 Samuel 3:20
- 1 Kings 5:11
- 2 Kings 4:42
- 1 Chronicles 2:22
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.
