עָשׂוֹר
ʻâsôwr · H6218 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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ten
State in which a countable entity is ten in number
ExamplesGenesis 24:55 But her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”
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tenth
State in which a countable entity is the tenth in a range
ExamplesExodus 12:3 “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.
Leviticus 16:29 “This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work, whether the native, or the stranger who resides among you;
Leviticus 23:27 “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble yourselves and present an offering by fire to the LORD.
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a ten-stringed music instrument
Exact meaning unsure; probably: a soundbox made of wood with ten strings of animal intestines stretched over the top, parallel to the soundbox
ExamplesPsalm 33:2 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.
Psalm 92:3 With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp, With resounding music on the lyre.
Psalm 144:9 God, I will sing a new song to You; On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
13 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 14
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֶבֶלharp, jar 2
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 3 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- עָשׂוֹר is the numeral ten, as in the request to say ten more words in Genesis 24:55.
- Frequency002001003009
- The word marks the tenth day of a month in the recurring calendar of feasts, as in the dating of Passover in Exodus 12:3 and the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16:29, 23:27, and 25:9.
- Musical Instruments001003001001013
- עָשׂוֹר also denotes a ten-stringed instrument, a facet of the word's range not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which are drawn from calendrical dating rather than musical contexts.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6218. asor עָשׂוֺר, and (Exo 12:3) עָשׂר noun [masculine] a ten, decade; — 1 usually of…
עָשׂוֺר, and (Exo 12:3) עָשׂר noun [masculine] a ten, decade; —
1 usually of days:
a. a period of ten days Gen 24:55 (J).
b. in phrase, לַחֹדֶשׁ (עָשׂר) בֶּעָשׂוֺר on the tenth of the month Lev 25:9 (H), Eze 20:1; Eze 24:1; Eze 40:1; Exo 12:3; Lev 16:29; Lev 23:27; Num 29:7; Jos 4:19 (all P), 2Ki 25:1 = Jer 52:4, Jer 52:12 (seventh day in || 2Ki 25:8).
2 of strings of instrument: ע ׳נֵבֶל harp, a ten (-stringed one) Psa 33:2; Psa 144:9; ׳ע alone Psa 92:4 upon a ten (-stringed instrument).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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