עֶשֶׂר
ʻeser · eh'ser
ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
Lexicon
Derivation: masculine of term עֲשָׂרָה; from H6237 (עָשַׂר);
ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ten, (fif-, seven-) teen.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest
To see and know that works to consume, to destroy of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֶשֶׂר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
176 occurrences · 176 OT · 0 NT · 58 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- ten61 · 41%
- and ten26 · 18%
- of ten20 · 14%
- the ten5 · 3%
- was ten4 · 3%
- and the ten4 · 3%
- thee ten3 · 2%
- even ten3 · 2%
- of tens2 · 1%
- these ten2 · 1%
- were ten2 · 1%
- also ten2 · 1%
- with ten2 · 1%
- to thee than ten1 · 1%
- there about ten1 · 1%
- it for ten's1 · 1%
- about ten1 · 1%
- and with him ten1 · 1%
- over tens1 · 1%
- me now these ten1 · 1%
- neither ten1 · 1%
- with thee ten1 · 1%
- weighing ten1 · 1%
- manner; ten1 · 1%
- peradventure ten1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.