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Ten

עֲשַׂרStrong’s H6236

asar (a-sar)

Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Asar is the Aramaic word usually translated “ten”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.

“At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.”
Daniel 4:29 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ten
How it's translated
  • ten 6

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 4
  • Ezra 1

2 books in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

עֲשַׂר asar · ten

ten Aramaic of e.ser (עֶשֶׂר "ten" H6235)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “ten” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TEN, adjective

[Latin decem.]

  1. Twice five; nine and one.
  2. It is a kind of proverbial number.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.