עָשָׂר
a.sar (H6240)
ten
AI Word Study
The word "a.sar" (H6240) with a short definition of "ten" is the Hebrew numeral referring to a group of ten individuals or a quantity of ten objects. Its frequency in the Bible is 339 occurrences, indicating its importance and common usage in the Hebrew text. The numerical value of "a.sar" is consistently referenced in various contexts, including counting, proportions, and multiples of ten. This is evident from its numerous appearances in biblical accounts, such as when describing quantities of days, years, or numbers of people. Its significance extends to calculations, ratios, and comparisons, underscoring its mathematical and quantitative nature. In terms of usage, "a.sar" is often employed in conjunction with other numerals to create larger numbers. This pattern suggests that the Hebrew language relies heavily on a base-10 system, with "a.sar" as a foundational unit. The sheer frequency of "a.sar" in the Bible emphasizes its fundamental role in Hebrew linguistics and numeracy.
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All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
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.
He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths for seven days to Yahweh.
“ ‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.
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.
These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.
and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher,
On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali,
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