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# עֵשֶׂק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6230

**Esek** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Esek [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6230/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫שֶׂק: n.pr.font. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6230/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.font. in SW. Pal. Gn 26:20 (expl. as contention);—locality unknown, 𝔊 Ἀδικία.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Esek (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.20/#tree)

וַיָּרִ֜יבוּ רֹעֵ֣י גְרָ֗ר עִם־רֹעֵ֥י יִצְחָ֛ק לֵאמֹ֖ר לָ֣נוּ הַמָּ֑יִם וַיִּקְרָ֤א שֵֽׁם־הַבְּאֵר֙ עֵ֔שֶׂק כִּ֥י הִֽתְעַשְּׂק֖וּ עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.disputed the.herdsmen of.Gerar with the.herdsmen of.Isaac (cmp) \[belongs\].to us the water and he.called the.name of the.well Esek (dm) they.quarreled with him

*JPS 1917:* And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6230.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6230/): 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).