esar · obligation

What it means

esar (אֱסָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “obligation”.

A promise by which a person binds himself, above all to keep from something.

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. A commitment to abstain from something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• obligation ×8
• obligations ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers 30:2

  When a man vows a vow to YHWH or swears an oath to bind an obligation on his soul, he shall not profane his word; according to all that comes out of his mouth he shall do.

• Numbers 30:3

  And when a woman vows a vow to YHWH and binds an obligation on herself in the house of her father in her youth,

• Numbers 30:4

  and her father hears her vow and her obligation that she has bound on her soul, and her father keeps silent toward her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation that she has bound on her soul shall stand.

• Numbers 30:5

  But if her father forbids her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations that she has bound on her soul shall stand; and YHWH will forgive her, because her father forbade her.

• Numbers 30:7

  and her husband hears of it and on the day he hears it keeps silent toward her, then her vows shall stand, and her obligations that she has bound on her soul shall stand.

• Numbers 30:10

  And if in the house of her husband she vowed or bound an obligation on her soul with an oath,

• Numbers 30:11

  and her husband heard of it and kept silent toward her and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation that she bound on her soul shall stand.

• Numbers 30:12

  But if her husband does annul them on the day he hears of them, nothing that came out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of her soul shall stand; her husband has annulled them, and YHWH will forgive her.

• Numbers 30:13

  Every vow and every oath of obligation to afflict the soul, her husband may confirm it, and her husband may annul it.

• Numbers 30:14

  But if her husband indeed keeps silent toward her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her obligations that are on her; he has confirmed them, because he kept silent toward her on the day he heard of them.

And 1 more times.