עָשָׂר
ʿāśār
ten
Strong's H6240NounHebrewTWOT 1711b

עָשָׂר (ʿāśār) is a Hebrew noun meaning ten. It appears 338 times in 23 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6240).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1711b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1711b)ten; -teen, -teenth; teen, teeth
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עָשָׂר: ten

עֶשְׂרֵה ten, both cardinal and ordinal

Strong's H6240 עָשָׂר: ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
KJV:(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-) teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).

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; …

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Genesis 5:8Exodus 12:6Leviticus 23:5

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