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Eleven

עַשְׁתֵּיStrong’s H6249

ashte (ash-te)

Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ashte is the Hebrew word usually translated “one”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

“Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,”
Zechariah 1:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. One, eleven, eleventhone as combined with ten ( a.sar (עָשָׂר "ten" H6240))
How it's translated
  • one 12
  • in one 3
  • to one 2
  • for one 1
  • of one 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 4
  • 1 Chronicles 4
  • Jeremiah 3
  • Numbers 2
  • Ezekiel 2
  • Deuteronomy 1

8 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

עַשְׁתֵּי ashte · eleven

1) one, eleven, eleventh 1a) one as combined with ten ( a.sar (עָשָׂר "ten" H6240))

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

ELEV'EN, adjective

elev'n. Ten and one added; as eleven men.

    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.