עָשָׂר
ʻâsâr · aw-sawr'
ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
Lexicon
Derivation: for H6235 (עֶשֶׂר);
ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
- ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen
- also, (ordinal) -teenth
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), [phrase] eleven(-th), [phrase] sixscore thousand, [phrase] twelve(-th).
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 עָשָׂר 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
339 occurrences · 339 OT · 0 NT · 32 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- twelve33 · 17%
- were twelve28 · 15%
- and twelve17 · 9%
- sixteen10 · 5%
- eleven10 · 5%
- eighteen9 · 5%
- fifteen7 · 4%
- fourteen7 · 4%
- thirteen7 · 4%
- and fourteen6 · 3%
- on the fourteenth5 · 3%
- the fourteenth5 · 3%
- in the twelfth5 · 3%
- the fifteenth4 · 2%
- the seventeenth4 · 2%
- on the thirteenth4 · 2%
- the eleventh4 · 2%
- were thirteen4 · 2%
- now in the eighteenth3 · 2%
- and in the eleventh3 · 2%
- in the fourteenth3 · 2%
- according to the twelve3 · 2%
- on the fifteenth3 · 2%
- seventeen3 · 2%
- and eighteen3 · 2%
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.