asor · ten

What it means

asor (עָשׂוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ten”.

A period of ten days. Also a ten-stringed instrument.

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, used to count the days of the month and everyday things.
2. A musical instrument with ten strings.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tenth ×12
• ten strings ×3
• ten ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 24:55

  Her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us some days, or ten; after that she will go.”

• Exodus 12:3

  Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month they shall take for themselves, each man, a lamb for each father’s house, a lamb for each household.

• Leviticus 16:29

  And this shall be for you a statute forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work the native or the resident alien who resides among you.

• Leviticus 23:27

  “But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls and present a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 25:9

  Then you shall sound the horn of acclamation in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Expiation you shall sound the horn throughout all your land.

• Numbers 29:7

  And on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work.

• Joshua 4:19

  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho.

• 2 Kings 25:1

  And it happened, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem; he encamped against it, and they built against it a siege wall all around.

• Psalms 33:2

  Give thanks to YHWH with the lyre; with a harp of ten strings sing psalms to him.

• Psalms 92:3

  with an instrument of ten strings and with the harp, with the murmur of the lyre.

• Psalms 144:9

  Elohim, a new song I will sing to you; on a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to you,

• Jeremiah 52:4

  And it happened, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem; they encamped against it, and they built against it a siege wall all around.

• Jeremiah 52:12

  In the fifth month, on the tenth of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, came —he stood before the king of Babylon— into Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 20:1

  And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, that men of the elders of Israel came to consult YHWH, and they sat before me.

• Ezekiel 24:1

  And the word of YHWH came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,

• Ezekiel 40:1

  In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on this very day the hand of YHWH was upon me, and he brought me there.