ἨΣΑΥ, ἠσαυ
ĒSAU, ēsau
Sounds Like: ee-SOW
Translations: Esau
From the root: ἨΣΑΥ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Esau, who was the elder son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the twin brother of Jacob, in the Old Testament. He is also known as Edom, and his descendants are the Edomites. The name is often associated with the territory of Edom, particularly 'Mount Esau'.
Inflection: Does not inflect
Strong’s number: G2421 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 4:8
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 25:25, 25:26, 25:27, 25:28, 25:29, 25:30, 25:31, 25:32, 25:33, 25:34, 26:34, 27:1, 27:5, 27:6, 27:11, 27:15, 27:19, 27:21, 27:22, 27:23, 27:24, 27:30, 27:32, 27:34, 27:36, 27:37, 27:38, 27:41, 27:42, 28:5, 28:6, 28:8, 28:9, 29:1, 32:3, 32:4, 32:5, 32:6, 32:8, 32:11, 32:13, 32:17, 32:18, 32:19, 33:1, 33:4, 33:9, 33:15, 33:16, 35:1, 35:7, 35:29, 36:1, 36:2, 36:4, 36:5, 36:6, 36:8, 36:9, 36:10, 36:12, 36:13, 36:14, 36:15, 36:17, 36:18, 36:19, 36:40, 36:43
- Numbers — 24:18
- Deuteronomy — 2:4, 2:5, 2:8, 2:12, 2:22, 2:29
- Joshua — 24:4
- 1 Chronicles — 1:34, 1:35
- Ezra (Alpha) — 5:29
- Judith — 7:8, 7:18
- 1 Maccabees — 5:3, 5:65
- Job — 42:17
- Jeremiah — 29:11
- Obadiah — 1:6, 1:8, 1:9, 1:18, 1:19, 1:21
- Malachi — 1:2, 1:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἨΣΑΥ.
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- ἨΣ — Esau
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