עָשָׂר asar

Hebrew word for “ten” · Strong’s H6240 · used 337 times in 291 verses

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Meaning

1) ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers); 1a) used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19

How it is translated

Glosses given for asar in context, with how often each is used:

• teen 170
• ten 162
• ten cubits 2
• teen cubits 2
• teenth 1

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 25 (24), Numbers 29 (10), Jeremiah 52 (7), Numbers 7 (6), Joshua 4 (6), Joshua 21 (6), 1 Chronicles 24 (6), Esther 9 (6), 1 Kings 7 (5), Ezra 8 (5)

Forms

• עשׂר 201
• עשׂרה 134
• העשׂר 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with asar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 133
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 92
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 58
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 52
• שְׁמֹנֶה shemoneh “eight” 37
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 43
• אֶחָד echad “one” 49
• מָלַךְ malakh “to reign” 36
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 33
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 35
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 37
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 31

Key verses

The verses using asar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken…
• Genesis 14:14 — And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them…
• Genesis 35:22 — And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob…
• Exodus 12:6 — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
• 2 Samuel 10:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba,…
• 1 Kings 8:65 — And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD…
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge…
• Job 42:12 — So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,…
• Psalms 60:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of…
• Isaiah 38:5 — Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days…
• Jeremiah 25:3 — From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto…
• Ezekiel 48:35 — It was round about eighteen thousand and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.