עֶשֶׂר
e.ser (H6235)
ten
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The Hebrew word, עֶשֶׂר (e.ser), is primarily used to convey the concept of the number ten. This word appears in the Hebrew Bible a total of 176 times, indicating its importance and frequency in ancient Jewish culture. Its short definition simply translates to "ten", suggesting that it functions as a basic numerical unit. The significance of עֶשֶׂר lies in its widespread usage across various contexts, from enumeration of people, animals, and items to measurement of time and quantities of food. Its presence in the Hebrew text underscores its role as a fundamental building block for counting and quantifying objects in everyday life. As a basic numerical unit, it contributes to the development of more complex numerical concepts, facilitating communication and recording of various transactions and events. Beyond its practical applications, the numerous occurrences of עֶשֶׂר may also suggest its symbolic significance in ancient Jewish culture. The number ten often appears in combination with other numbers or in relation to significant events, which could imply its importance in biblical narratives or rituals. However, a detailed analysis of these specific contexts is required to uncover the full scope of עֶשֶׂר's symbolic meaning.
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and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
“ ‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their pasture lands.
With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.
After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
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