esav · Esau

What it means

esav (עֵשָׂו) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Esau”.

The elder son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob; also called Edom, father of the Edomites. The name also stands for his descendants.

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.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×76
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Obadiah×7
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 25:25

  The first came out reddish, all of him like a cloak of hair, and they called his name Esau.

• Genesis 25:26

  After that his brother came out, with his hand holding on to the heel of Esau, and he called his name Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 25:27

  The boys grew up, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field, while Jacob was a man of integrity, living in tents.

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac loved Esau, because game was to his taste, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob cooked a stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me gulp down some of the red, this red stuff, for I am exhausted.” That is why his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Look, I am going to die; what good is a birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:34

  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, rose, and went away. So Esau despised the birthright.

• Genesis 26:34

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 27:5

  Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:15

  Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, please, so that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother; so he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had only just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:32

  Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me too, my father!”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Look, I have made him master over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants, and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. So for you, then, what can I do, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, me too, my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

• Genesis 27:42

  The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 28:6

  Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

• Genesis 28:8

  Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the eyes of Isaac his father.

• Genesis 28:9

  So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, besides his wives, as his wife.

• Genesis 32:3

  Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

• Genesis 32:4

  He commanded them, saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob: With Laban I have resided as an alien and stayed until now.

• Genesis 32:6

  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

• Genesis 32:8

  For he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and strikes it, then the camp that is left will escape.”

• Genesis 32:11

  Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, the mothers with the children.

• Genesis 32:13

  He spent the night there that night, and he took from what had come into his hand a gift for Esau his brother:

• Genesis 32:17

  He commanded the first, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you, and where are you going, and whose are these ahead of you?’

• Genesis 32:18

  then you shall say, ‘They are your servant’s, Jacob’s. It is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau; and look, he too is behind us.’”

• Genesis 32:19

  He commanded also the second, also the third, and also all who were going after the herds, saying, “According to this word you shall speak to Esau when you find him.

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and look, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

And 57 more times.