Tenth
עִשָּׂרוֹןStrong’s H6241issaron (is-sa-ron)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Issaron is the Hebrew word usually translated “tenths”, “tenth” and “tenth of”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.”
Meaning
- Tenth part, tithe
How it's translated
- tenths 19
- a tenth 8
- and a tenth 3
- and a tenth of 2
- one tenth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 16
- Leviticus 5
- Exodus 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 14:10And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Leviticus 14:21And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
- Leviticus 23:13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
- Leviticus 23:17Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 24:5And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
- Numbers 15:4Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
Hebrew dictionary
עִשָּׂרוֹן issaron · tenth
tenth part, tithe
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tenth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TENTH, adjective
[from ten.]
The ordinal of ten; the first after the ninth.
All definitions and other forms of “tenth”
TENTH, noun
The tenth part.
- Tithe; the tenth part of annual produce or increase.
- In music, the octave of the third; an interval comprehending nine conjoint degrees, or ten sounds, diatonically divided.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.