asar · -teen (ten)

What it means

asar (עָשָׂר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “-teen (ten)”.

Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".

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. Ten added to another number, as in thirteen or fourteen.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Ten, only in the numbers from 11 to 19, like the “-teen” in “thirteen”. BDB defines it so: ten, only in combination.

• Twelve: Ishmael's twelve chiefs, Jacob's twelve sons Genesis 17:20Genesis 35:22
• The twelve tribes Exodus 24:4
• Other figures from 11 to 19 Genesis 14:4

Historical and cultural background

In Exodus 24:4 Moses sets up “twelve standing stones for the twelve tribes of Israel”.

How we translate it

“Twelve” 111 times, “eighteen” 23, “fourteen” 21, “fourteenth” 21, “sixteen” 21, “twelfth” 20, “fifteen” 18, “eleven” 16. The word never stands alone: together with the number it goes with, it makes a single English figure. For “ten” on its own, Hebrew uses עֶשֶׂר.

How it is translated

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

• twelve ×111
• eighteen ×23
• fourteen ×21
• fourteenth ×21
• sixteen ×21
• twelfth ×20
• fifteen ×18
• eleven ×16
• eleventh ×16
• fifteenth ×15
• others ×55

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×24
• Exodus×20
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×39
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×24
• Judges×7
• 2 Samuel×8
• 1 Kings×22
• 2 Kings×26
• 1 Chronicles×59
• 2 Chronicles×26
• Ezra×10
• Nehemiah×4
• Esther×19
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×13
• Ezekiel×20
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 5:8

  And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died.

• Genesis 5:10

  And Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 7:11

  In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

• Genesis 7:20

  Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

• Genesis 8:4

  And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

• Genesis 11:25

  After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 14:4

  Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

• Genesis 14:5

  In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he called out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 17:20

  As for Ishmael, I have heard you; look, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. He will father twelve chiefs, and I will make him into a great nation.

• Genesis 17:25

  And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 25:16

  These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve chiefs according to their peoples.

• 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 32:22

  He rose that night and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

• Genesis 35:22

  While Israel was dwelling in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

• Genesis 37:2

  These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: look, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”

• Genesis 42:13

  They said, “Your servants are twelve, we are brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and look, the youngest is with our father today, and the one is no more.”

• Genesis 42:32

  We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; the one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

• Genesis 46:18

  These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob, sixteen persons.

• Genesis 46:22

  These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob; all the persons were fourteen.

• Genesis 47:28

  Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years.

• Genesis 49:28

  All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.

• Exodus 12:6

  You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

• Exodus 12:18

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening.

• Exodus 15:27

  They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they camped there by the water.

• Exodus 16:1

  They set out from Elim, and all the community of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 24:4

  Moses wrote all the words of YHWH. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve standing stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Exodus 26:7

  You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the dwelling; you shall make eleven curtains.

• Exodus 26:8

  The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 26:25

  So there shall be eight boards, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases, two bases under one board and two bases under another board.

• Exodus 27:14

  Fifteen cubits of hangings for the one side, their pillars three and their bases three;

• Exodus 27:15

  and for the other side fifteen cubits of hangings, their pillars three and their bases three.

• Exodus 28:21

  The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with engravings of a signet, each with its name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

• Exodus 36:14

  And he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the dwelling; eleven curtains he made them.

• Exodus 36:15

  The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 36:30

  And there were eight boards and their bases of silver, sixteen bases, two bases, two bases under each board.

• Exodus 38:14

  Hangings of fifteen cubits for the one side; their pillars three and their bases three.

• Exodus 38:15

  And for the second side, on this side and on that side of the gate of the courtyard, hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three and their bases three.

• Exodus 39:14

  And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with the engravings of a seal, each according to its name, for the twelve tribes.

And 297 more times.