A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.25; son of: Isaac (H3327) and Rebekah (H7259); brother of: Israel (H3478); married to Oholibamah (H0173), Judith (H3067), Adah (H5711H) and Mahalath (H4258); father of: Eliphaz (H0464), Reuel (H7467), Jeush (H3266), Jalam (H3281) and Korah (H7141); also called Edom at Gen.25.30; 36.1,8,19,21; 1x,54; Also named: e.dom (אֱדוֹם "Edom" H0123H) § Esau = "hairy" eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob; sold the birthright for food when he was hungry and the divine blessing went to Jacob; progenitor of the Arab peoples
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H6215 — עֵשָׂו
e.sav · Esau · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 25:25 · עֵשָֽׂו׃The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.Genesis 25:26 · עֵשָׂ֔וAfter that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.Genesis 25:27 · עֵשָׂ֗וThe boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.Genesis 25:28 · עֵשָׂ֖וNow Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.Genesis 25:29 · עֵשָׂ֛וJacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.Genesis 25:30 · עֵשָׂ֜וEsau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.Genesis 25:32 · עֵשָׂ֔וEsau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”Genesis 25:34 · לְעֵשָׂ֗ו · עֵשָׂ֖וJacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.Genesis 26:34 · עֵשָׂו֙When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.Genesis 27:1 · עֵשָׂ֣ו׀It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”Genesis 27:5 · עֵשָׂ֖ו · עֵשָׂו֙Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.Genesis 27:6 · עֵשָׂ֥וRebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,Genesis 27:11 · עֵשָׂ֤וJacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.Genesis 27:15 · עֵשָׂ֜וRebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.Genesis 27:19 · עֵשָׂ֣וJacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”Genesis 27:21 · עֵשָׂ֖וIsaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”Genesis 27:22 · עֵשָֽׂו׃Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”Genesis 27:23 · עֵשָׂ֥וHe didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.Genesis 27:24 · עֵשָׂ֑וHe said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”Genesis 27:30 · וְעֵשָׂ֣וIt happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.Genesis 27:32 · עֵשָֽׂו׃Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”Genesis 27:34 · עֵשָׂו֙When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”Genesis 27:37 · לְעֵשָׂ֗וIsaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?”Genesis 27:38 · עֵשָׂ֜ו · עֵשָׂ֛וEsau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.Genesis 27:41 · עֵשָׂו֙ · עֵשָׂ֜וEsau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”Genesis 27:42 · עֵשָׂ֖ו · עֵשָׂ֣וThe words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.Genesis 28:5 · וְעֵשָֽׂו׃Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.Genesis 28:6 · עֵשָׂ֗וNow Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,”Genesis 28:8 · עֵשָׂ֔וEsau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.Genesis 28:9 · עֵשָׂ֖וEsau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.Genesis 32:3 · עֵשָׂ֖וJacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.Genesis 32:4 · לְעֵשָׂ֑וHe commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.Genesis 32:6 · עֵשָׂ֔וThe messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”Genesis 32:8 · עֵשָׂ֛וand he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”Genesis 32:11 · עֵשָׂ֑וPlease deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.Genesis 32:13 · לְעֵשָׂ֥וHe lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:Genesis 32:17 · עֵשָׂ֣וHe commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’Genesis 32:18 · לְעֵשָׂ֑וThen you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”Genesis 32:19 · עֵשָׂ֔וHe commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.Genesis 33:1 · עֵשָׂ֣וJacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.Genesis 33:4 · עֵשָׂ֤וEsau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.Genesis 33:9 · עֵשָׂ֖וEsau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”Genesis 33:15 · עֵשָׂ֔וEsau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”Genesis 33:16 · עֵשָׂ֛וSo Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.Genesis 35:1 · עֵשָׂ֥וGod said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”Genesis 35:29 · עֵשָׂ֥וIsaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.Genesis 36:1 · עֵשָׂ֖וNow this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).Genesis 36:2 · עֵשָׂ֛וEsau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;Genesis 36:4 · לְעֵשָׂ֖וAdah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.Genesis 36:5 · עֵשָׂ֔וOholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.Genesis 36:6 · עֵשָׂ֡וEsau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.Genesis 36:8 · עֵשָׂו֙ · עֵשָׂ֖וEsau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.Genesis 36:9 · עֵשָׂ֖וThis is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:Genesis 36:10 · עֵשָׂ֑ו · עֵשָׂ֔ו · עֵשָֽׂו׃these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.Genesis 36:12 · עֵשָׂ֔ו · עֵשָֽׂו׃Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.Genesis 36:13 · עֵשָֽׂו׃These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.Genesis 36:14 · עֵשָׂ֑ו · לְעֵשָׂ֔וThese were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.Genesis 36:15 · עֵשָׂ֑ו · עֵשָׂ֔וThese are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,Genesis 36:17 · עֵשָׂ֔ו · עֵשָֽׂו׃These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.Genesis 36:18 · עֵשָׂ֔ו · עֵשָֽׂו׃These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.Genesis 36:19 · עֵשָׂ֛וThese are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.Genesis 36:40 · עֵשָׂו֙These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,Genesis 36:43 · עֵשָׂ֖וchief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.Deuteronomy 2:4 · עֵשָׂ֔וCommand the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;Deuteronomy 2:5 · לְעֵשָׂ֔וdon’t contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.Deuteronomy 2:8 · עֵשָׂ֗וSo we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.Deuteronomy 2:12 · עֵשָׂ֣וThe Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)Deuteronomy 2:22 · עֵשָׂ֔וas he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:Deuteronomy 2:29 · עֵשָׂ֗וas the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”Joshua 24:4 · עֵשָׂ֑ו · לְעֵשָׂ֜וI gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.1 Chronicles 1:34 · עֵשָׂ֖וAbraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.1 Chronicles 1:35 · עֵשָׂ֑וThe sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.Jeremiah 49:8 · עֵשָׂ֛וFlee, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.Jeremiah 49:10 · עֵשָׂ֗וBut I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.Obadiah 1:6 · עֵשָׂ֔וHow Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!Obadiah 1:8 · עֵשָֽׂו׃“Won’t I in that day,” says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?Obadiah 1:9 · עֵשָׂ֖וYour mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.Obadiah 1:18 · עֵשָׂו֙ · עֵשָׂ֔וThe house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.Obadiah 1:19 · עֵשָׂ֗וThose of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.Obadiah 1:21 · עֵשָׂ֑וSaviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.Malachi 1:2 · עֵשָׂ֤ו“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;Malachi 1:3 · עֵשָׂ֖וbut Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”