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# עָשַׂר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6237

**tale the tenth of** — used 10 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

tale the tenth of [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6237/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשַׂר: vb. denom. take the tenth of, tithe Pi. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6237/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. take the tenth of, tithe;— Impf. 3 ms. יַעְשֹׂר 1 S 8:15, 17 (c. acc. of thing tithed). Impf. + Inf. abs. give a tenth of, c. acc. rei: 2 ms. עַשֵּׂר תְּעַשֵּׂר Dt 14:22; 1 s. עַשֵּׂר אֲעַשְּׂרֶנּוּ לָ֑ךְ Gn 28:22 (P); Pt. taking the tenth, הַמְעַשְּׂרִים Ne 10:38. (so usually expl.) Inf. לַעְשֵׂר Dt 26:12 c. acc. cogn. i.e. taking, reckoning, tithe, but Inf. cstr. with—ֵ improb., לְעַשֵּׂר Pi.; בַּעְשֵׂר Ne 10:39 abs., i.e. receiving tithes, but read prob. בַּעְשֹׂר Qal (on anom. points, see Ges§ 53 k Dr Dt 26:12).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fully (tithe) (2); he will take a tithe (2); I (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.17/#tree)

צֹאנְכֶ֖ם יַעְשֹׂ֑ר וְאַתֶּ֖ם תִּֽהְיוּ־ל֥וֹ לַעֲבָדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* flock\[s\] your he.will.take.a.tithe and you you.will.become his (into) servants

*JPS 1917:* He will take the tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.

[Job 40:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.23/#tree)

הֵ֤ן יַעֲשֹׁ֣ק נָ֭הָר לֹ֣א יַחְפּ֑וֹז יִבְטַ֓ח ׀ כִּֽי־יָגִ֖יחַ יַרְדֵּ֣ן אֶל־פִּֽיהוּ׃

*Word for word:* there! it.is.violent \[the\].river not it.makes.haste it.is.confident (dm) it.bursts.forth \[the\].Jordan to mouth its

*JPS 1917:* Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6237.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6237/): 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).