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# עֲשִׂירִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6224

**tenth** — used 29 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tenth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6224/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲשִׂירִי: adj. num. ord. tenth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6224/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** m., עֲשִׂירִיָּה, and עֲשִׂירִית8 f. adj. num. ord. tenth;— דּוֹר עֲשִׂירִי Dt 23:3, 4; בַּיּוֹם הָע׳ Nu 7:66 (P); הַחֹדֶשׁ הָע׳ Gn 8:5 (P) Ez 24:1 + 5 times; בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂרִי Je 39:1; ח׳ om. הָעֲשִׂירִי Gn 8:5 (P), בָּעֲשִׂרִי Ez 29:1; 33:21; other nouns om. הָעֲשִׂירִי 1 Ch 12:13; 25:17; 27:13, הָעֲשִׂרִי 24:11; בַּשָּׁנָה הָעֲשִׂרִית Ez 29:1, בַּשּׁ׳ הָעֲשִׂרִית Je 32:1. as subst. a tenth part: f. abs. עֲשִׂרִיָּה Is 6:13; f. cstr. עֲשִׂירִית הָאֵיפָה Nu 28:5, עֲשִׂרִית Ex 16:36, עֲשִׂירִת Lv 5:11; 6:13; Nu 5:15; עֲשִׂירִת הַחֹמֶר Ez 45:11; m. abs. הָעֲשִׂירִי Lv 27:32 the tithe (i.e. of cattle, etc.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tenth (19); (the) tenth (3); \[month\] (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.14/#tree)

יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙ הָעֲשִׂירִ֔יס מַכְבַּנַּ֖י עַשְׁתֵּ֥י עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* Jeremiah \[was\].the tenth Machbannai \[was.the\].one.plus ten

*JPS 1917:* Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

[Exodus 16:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.36/#tree)

וְהָעֹ֕מֶר עֲשִׂרִ֥ית הָאֵיפָ֖ה הֽוּא׃פ

*Word for word:* and the omer \[is\].the.tenth.\[part\] of the.ephah it

*JPS 1917:* Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6224/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).