Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6215
עֵשָׂו
Esavay-sawv'
Esau
97 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻÊsâv
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6215is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6215
Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity
The King James renders it: Esau.
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
Esav is rendered "Esau". It stands 97 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Seventy-six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:25The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Genesis 25:25עֵשָֽׂו׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventy-six of the word's ninety-seven 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
- Esau86
- to Esau8
- and Esau2
- for Esau1
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 97, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- עֵשָׂ֔ו16
- עֵשָׂ֖ו15
- עֵשָֽׂו׃9
- עֵשָׂ֑ו8
- עֵשָׂ֛ו7
- עֵשָׂו֙7
- עֵשָׂ֗ו6
- עֵשָׂ֣ו5
- עֵשָׂ֜ו4
- עֵשָׂ֥ו4
- עֵשָׂ֤ו3
- לְעֵשָׂ֗ו2
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)76HNpm
- proper noun (a name)10HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)5HR/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
Genesis
seventy-six uses
The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
- עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- לְעֵשָׂ֗וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֣ו׀ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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,
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
- עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
- עֵשָׂ֤וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.”
- עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.”
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
- עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
- וְעֵשָׂ֣וveesavconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Esau
But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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!”
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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?”
- לְעֵשָׂ֗וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
- עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.”
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֜וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- וְעֵשָֽׂו׃veesavconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Esau
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,”
- עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- לְעֵשָׂ֑וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
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.”
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
- לְעֵשָׂ֥וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Esau
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?’
- עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.’”
- לְעֵשָׂ֑וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
- עֵשָׂ֤וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
“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.”
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.”
- עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֥וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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,
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
- לְעֵשָׂ֖וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֡וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- לְעֵשָׂ֔וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
These are the names of Esau’s chiefs, according to their families and regions, by their names: Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Deuteronomy
six uses
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- לְעֵשָׂ֔וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.)
- עֵשָׂ֣וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.”
- עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Joshua
two uses
and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- לְעֵשָׂ֜וleesavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Esau
1 Chronicles
two uses
Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Jeremiah
two uses
Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
- עֵשָׂ֛וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Obadiah
seven uses
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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?
- עֵשָֽׂו׃ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂו֙ʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
- עֵשָׂ֔וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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.
- עֵשָׂ֗וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
- עֵשָׂ֑וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
Malachi
two uses
“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,
- עֵשָׂ֤וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- עֵשָׂ֖וʾesavproper noun (a name)tagged: Esau
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