עָשׂוֹר
a.s.vor
ten
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredBased on the provided lexicon data, the Hebrew word עָשׂוֹר (H6218) translates to the number ten. This single-digit numeral appears 16 times in the Bible, indicating its moderate importance in biblical language. Its usage range encompasses different contexts, likely used to express quantities, ages, or group sizes. The frequency of its appearance suggests that the concept of ten was significant enough to be repeated multiple times, possibly due to its inherent mathematical properties or its presence in various biblical narratives. The significance of עָשׂוֹר lies in its role as a fundamental numerological concept, serving as a reference point for larger and smaller quantities. Its consistent translation and usage across 16 instances underscore the uniformity and coherence of biblical language, revealing the importance of this particular number in the Hebrew biblical vocabulary.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
16 total occurrences across the text
Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
Psalms 92:3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
Psalms 144:9I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
Jeremiah 52:4In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Jeremiah 52:12Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 20:1In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
Ezekiel 24:1Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.
Genesis 24:55Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
Exodus 12:3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
Leviticus 16:29“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
Leviticus 23:27“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Leviticus 25:9Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
Numbers 29:7“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
Joshua 4:19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
2 Kings 25:1In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.