Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6147
עֵר
Erayr
Er
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻÊr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6147is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6147
Er, the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Er.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Er is rendered "Er". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:3So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
Genesis 38:3עֵֽר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's ten uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Er9
- for Er1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עֵ֚ר2
- עֵ֤ר2
- לְעֵ֣ר1
- עֵ֧ר1
- עֵ֣ר1
- עֵ֛ר1
- עֵ֣ר׀1
- עֵֽר׃1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)9HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Genesis
five uses
So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
- עֵֽר׃ʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- לְעֵ֣רleerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Er
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
- עֵ֚רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- עֵ֧רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
- עֵ֤רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
Numbers
two uses
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
- עֵ֣רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
- עֵ֛רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
1 Chronicles
three uses
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
- עֵ֤רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
- עֵ֣ר׀ʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
The sons of Shelah son of Judah:
- עֵ֚רʾerproper noun (a name)tagged: Er
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.