עַשְׁתֵּי
ash.te (H6249)
eleven
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word עַשְׁתֵּי (ash.te) is a numerical term equivalent to the number eleven. It appears 19 times in the Bible, indicating that eleven is a significant quantity that requires a specific term in the Hebrew language. This numerical term, ash.te, is used in various contexts, likely to emphasize the size or importance of a group or quantity. Its occurrences suggest that eleven is a threshold or a turning point that deserves attention. For example, lists of people, animals, or items often include the number eleven as a separate item, rather than implying a small remainder in a larger group. The significance of ash.te relies on the importance of exactitude in Hebrew numerical language. The use of a distinct term for eleven underscores the importance of this number in various situations, from everyday counting to significant events. By employing a specific word for eleven, the Hebrew language acknowledges the uniqueness of this quantity and its potential implications in different contexts.
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“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.
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.
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher,
“ ‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them,
So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,