עֶשֶׂר (ʿeśer) is a Hebrew noun meaning ten. It appears 177 times in 26 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6235).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1711a)

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עֶשֶׂר noun, masculine: ten

עֲשָׂרָה 176 noun, masculine and feminine ten

Strong's H6235 עֶשֶׂר: ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
KJV:ten, (fif-, seven-) teen.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1711: עשׂר ʿśr — Root of: מַעֲשֵׂר tenth part, tithe; עָשׂוֹר a ten, decade; עֲשִׂירִי tenth; עֶשֶׂר ten; עָשַׂר tale the tenth of, tithe; עָשָׂר ten; …

• עָשָׂר ʿāśār — ten
• עֶשְׂרִים ʿeśrîm — twenty
• עִשָּׂרוֹן ʿiśśārôn — tenth part
• מַעֲשֵׂר maʿăśēr — tenth part
• עֲשִׂירִי ʿăśîrî — tenth
• עָשׂוֹר ʿāśôr — a ten
• עָשַׂר ʿāśar — tale the tenth of

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