Ten
עֲשַׂרStrong’s H6236asar (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:20In contextAnd of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
- Daniel 7:24In contextAnd the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
- Ezra 6:17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
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.]
- Twice five; nine and one.
- 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.