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עֵשָׂו

ʻÊsâv · H6215 · Hebrew · proper noun · 97 occurrences

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Person

This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. Esau

    A man who was the son of Isaac and older brother of Jacob, sold his birthright for a bowl of lentil stew, and is regarded as ancestor of the Edomites

    Examples

    Genesis 25:25 Now the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

    Genesis 25:26 Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

    Genesis 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a civilized man, living in tents.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

20 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

29 occurrences in 17 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 5 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

39 occurrences in 14 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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עֵשָׂו is the personal name Esau, the elder son of Isaac and Rebekah who sold his birthright to his brother Jacob.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6215. Esav עֵשָׂו97 proper name, masculine Esau, Ησαυ; — Esau, elder son of Isaac Gen…
H6215. Esav
עֵשָׂו97 proper name, masculine Esau, Ησαυ; — Esau, elder son of Isaac Gen 25:25-26, Gen 25:7t. 25, Gen 26:34; Gen 27:1 Gen 27:24t. Gen 27:27-28, Gen 32:4 Gen 32:15t. Gen 32:32, 33, 35, Jos 24:4 (twice in verse); Mal 1:2-3, 1Ch 1:34; identification with אֱדוֺם Gen 36:1, Gen 36:8, Gen 36:19, ancestor of Edomites Gen 36:9; Gen 36:43, compare 1Ch 1:35; dwelling in Mt. Seir Gen 36:8 (25 t. in all, Genesis 36) Deu 2:5; Jos 24:4; עֵשָׂו בְּנֵי = Edomites Deu 2:4, Deu 2:8, Deu 2:12, Deu 2:22, Deu 2:29; עֵשָׂו = Edom Jer 49:8; Obadiah 6, עֵשָׂו בֵּית Jer 49:18; Jer 49:18, עֵשָׂו הַר Jer 49:18; Jer 49:9; Jer 49:19; Jer 49:21.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People97 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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