עֲשִׂירִי
a.si.ri (H6224)
tenth
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word עֲשִׂירִי (a.si.ri, Strong's number H6224) means "tenth". This definition is clearly stated in the lexicon data. Its semantic domain is related to "Construction & Crafts", but its meaning appears to be a numerical value rather than a concept directly associated with these areas. The word is used 29 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in various contexts. Given its definition, we can infer that the word is used to represent the tenth part of something, such as a division of a larger quantity or a position in a sequence. Its frequency in the biblical text suggests that it was a significant concept in the culture and literature of the time. The significance of the word עֲשִׂירִי lies in its role as a mathematical concept that structures the organization of things in the biblical world. Understanding what a tenth represents can provide insight into how ancient cultures thought about quantities, proportions, and classification.
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The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.
“ ‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
“This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan,
with one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s assembly forever,
In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.
Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”