Word Study · Strong's H6215 · Hebrew
עֵשָׂו
Esav
ay-sawv'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻÊsâv
“Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity
Rendered in the KJV as
Esau.
- 97occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 7 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 21inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 97 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 21
- עֵשָׂ֔ו16
- עֵשָׂ֖ו15
- עֵשָֽׂו׃9
- עֵשָׂ֑ו8
- עֵשָׂ֛ו7
- עֵשָׂו֙7
- עֵשָׂ֗ו6
- עֵשָׂ֣ו5
- עֵשָׂ֜ו4
- עֵשָׂ֥ו4
- עֵשָׂ֤ו3
- לְעֵשָׂ֗ו2
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 6
- Esau84
- to Esau8
- and Esau2
- [am] Esau1
- [was] Esau1
- for Esau1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- proper noun (a name)76
- proper noun (a name)10
- preposition + proper noun (a name)5
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 76
- HNpl · 10
- HR/Npm · 5
- HR/Npl · 4
- HC/Npm · 2
All 97, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Genesis76 of 97 · 78%
- Obadiah7 of 97 · 7%
- Deuteronomy6 of 97 · 6%
- Joshua2 of 97 · 2%
- 1 Chronicles2 of 97 · 2%
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Genesis76 occurrences
- Genesis 25:25עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.here: Esau
- Genesis 25:26עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.here: Esau
- Genesis 25:27עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.here: Esau
- Genesis 25:28עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.here: Esau
- Genesis 25:29עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.here: Esau
- Genesis 25:30עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)here: Esau
- Genesis 25:32עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”here: Esau
- Genesis 25:34לְעֵשָׂ֗וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.here: to Esau
- Genesis 25:34עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.here: Esau
- Genesis 26:34עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:1עֵשָׂ֣ו׀ʾesavproper noun (a name)When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:5עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,here: Esau
- Genesis 27:5עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,here: Esau
- Genesis 27:6עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,here: Esau
- Genesis 27:11עֵשָׂ֤וʾesavproper noun (a name)Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:15עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:19עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”here: [am] Esau
- Genesis 27:21עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”here: Esau
- Genesis 27:22עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”here: Esau
- Genesis 27:23עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:24עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”here: Esau
- Genesis 27:30וְעֵשָׂ֣וveesavconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.here: and Esau
- Genesis 27:32עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:34עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”here: Esau
- Genesis 27:37לְעֵשָׂ֗וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”here: to Esau
- Genesis 27:38עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:38עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:41עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”here: Esau
- Genesis 27:41עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”here: Esau
- Genesis 27:42עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.here: Esau
- Genesis 27:42עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.here: Esau
- Genesis 28:5וְעֵשָֽׂו׃veesavconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.here: and Esau
- Genesis 28:6עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”here: Esau
- Genesis 28:8עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,here: Esau
- Genesis 28:9עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.here: Esau
- Genesis 32:3עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.here: Esau
- Genesis 32:4לְעֵשָׂ֑וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.here: to Esau
- Genesis 32:6עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”here: Esau
- Genesis 32:8עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”here: Esau
- Genesis 32:11עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.here: Esau
- Genesis 32:13לְעֵשָׂ֥וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:here: for Esau
- Genesis 32:17עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’here: Esau
- Genesis 32:18לְעֵשָׂ֑וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”here: to Esau
- Genesis 32:19עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.here: Esau
- Genesis 33:1עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.here: Esau
- Genesis 33:4עֵשָׂ֤וʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.here: Esau
- Genesis 33:9עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”here: Esau
- Genesis 33:15עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”here: Esau
- Genesis 33:16עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,here: Esau
- Genesis 35:1עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”here: Esau
- Genesis 35:29עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:1עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).here: Esau
- Genesis 36:2עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,here: Esau
- Genesis 36:4לְעֵשָׂ֖וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,here: to Esau
- Genesis 36:5עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:6עֵשָׂ֡וʾesavproper noun (a name)Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:8עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:8עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:9עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:10עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:10עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:10עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:12עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:12עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:13עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:14עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah (daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon) whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:14לְעֵשָׂ֔וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah (daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon) whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.here: to Esau
- Genesis 36:15עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,here: Esau
- Genesis 36:15עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,here: Esau
- Genesis 36:17עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:17עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:18עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. They are the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:18עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. They are the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:19עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.here: Esau
- Genesis 36:40עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)These are the names of Esau’s chiefs, according to their families and regions, by their names: Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,here: Esau
- Genesis 36:43עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.here: [was] Esau
Deuteronomy6 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 2:4עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.here: Esau
- Deuteronomy 2:5לְעֵשָׂ֔וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.here: to Esau
- Deuteronomy 2:8עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.here: Esau
- Deuteronomy 2:12עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)here: Esau
- Deuteronomy 2:22עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.here: Esau
- Deuteronomy 2:29עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”here: Esau
Joshua2 occurrences
- Joshua 24:4עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.here: Esau
- Joshua 24:4לְעֵשָׂ֜וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.here: to Esau
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
Jeremiah2 occurrences
- Jeremiah 49:8עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.here: Esau
- Jeremiah 49:10עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.here: Esau
Obadiah7 occurrences
- Obadiah 1:6עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!here: Esau
- Obadiah 1:8עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?here: Esau
- Obadiah 1:9עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.here: Esau
- Obadiah 1:18עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.here: Esau
- Obadiah 1:18עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.here: Esau
- Obadiah 1:19עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.here: Esau
- Obadiah 1:21עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.here: Esau
Malachi2 occurrences
- Malachi 1:2עֵשָׂ֤וʾesavproper noun (a name)“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,here: Esau
- Malachi 1:3עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”here: Esau