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# עִשָּׂרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6241

**tenth part** — used 33 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 part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6241/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִשָּׂרוֹן: n.m. tenth part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6241/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 14:10 tenth part (of ephah; cf. 𝔊 δέκατον τοῦ οἰφί Nu 15:4, and עֲשִׂירִית הָאֵיפָה 28:5; i.e. = עֹמֶר, v. further BenzArch. 182 NowArch. i. 203);—abs. ע׳ Lv 14:21 +, עִשָּׂרֹן Ex 29:40; Nu 28:13; pl. עֶשְׂרֹנִים Nu 28:9 +;—only P (H), as measure of סֹלֶת used in meal-offering Ex 29:40 Lv 14:10 + 3 times Lv (H only 23:17); Nu 15:4 + 26 times Nu, incl. distributive עִשָּׂר(וֹ)ן עִשָּׂרוֹן 28:13 + 4 times.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tenths \[of an ephah\] (15); a tenth (10); tenths (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 28:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.29/#tree)

עִשָּׂרוֹן֙ עִשָּׂר֔וֹן לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָ֑ד לְשִׁבְעַ֖ת הַכְּבָשִֽׂים׃

*Word for word:* a.tenth a.tenth for the lamb (the) one for the.seven the lambs

*JPS 1917:* a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

[Numbers 29:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.29.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.29.10/#tree)

עִשָּׂרוֹן֙ עִשָּׂר֔וֹן לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָ֑ד לְשִׁבְעַ֖ת הַכְּבָשִֽׂים׃

*Word for word:* a.tenth a.tenth for the lamb (the) one for the.seven the lambs

*JPS 1917:* a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6241/): 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).