eser · ten

What it means

eser (עֶשֶׂר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ten”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The number ten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Ten. Of the same family are עֶשְׂרִים, “twenty”, and עֲשִׂירִי, “tenth”.

• “The ten words” Exodus 34:28Deuteronomy 4:13
• “For the sake of the ten” Genesis 18:32
• Chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens Exodus 18:21

How we translate it

“Ten” 171 times, “tens” 3. The “ten words” (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים) are left that way, as the Hebrew says.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ten ×171
• tens ×3
• fifteen ×1
• seventeen ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×15
• Exodus×11
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×18
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×6
• Judges×12
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×20
• 2 Kings×13
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×13
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×5
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×16
• Daniel×4
• Amos×2
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 5:14

  And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years and he died.

• Genesis 16:3

  So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, at the end of ten years of Abram’s living in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

• Genesis 18:32

  He said, “Please let Adonai not be angry, and I will speak only this once: perhaps ten will be found there.” He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

• Genesis 24:10

  The servant took ten camels from the camels of his lord and went, with all kinds of good things of his lord in his hand. He rose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

• Genesis 24:22

  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold in weight,

• Genesis 31:7

  Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do harm to me.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have had in your house: I served you fourteen years for the two of your daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 42:3

  So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

• Genesis 45:23

  And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys carrying some of the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain, bread, and provisions for his father for the journey.

• Genesis 50:22

  Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his father’s household; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

• Genesis 50:26

  Joseph died a hundred and ten years old; they embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

• Exodus 18:21

  And you shall look for, from all the people, capable men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them as chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

• Exodus 18:25

  Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

• Exodus 26:1

  The dwelling you shall make of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, you shall make them.

• Exodus 26:16

  Ten cubits shall be the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 27:12

  For the width of the courtyard on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten.

• Exodus 34:28

  And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

• Exodus 36:8

  And all the wise of heart among those who did the work made the dwelling with ten curtains of twisted fine linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, he made them.

• Exodus 36:21

  Ten cubits was the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 38:12

  And for the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break for you the staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and give back your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

• Leviticus 27:5

  And if from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Leviticus 27:7

  And if from sixty years old and upward, if a male, the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Numbers 7:14

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:20

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:26

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:32

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:38

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:44

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:50

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:56

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:62

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:68

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:74

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:80

  one gold spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

• Numbers 7:86

  twelve gold spoons full of incense, ten shekels apiece per spoon, by the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons was one hundred twenty shekels;

• Numbers 11:19

  You shall eat not one day, and not two days, and not five days, and not ten days, and not twenty days,

• Numbers 11:32

  And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

• Numbers 14:22

  that all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not listened to my voice,

And 136 more times.