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Strong's H6215 עֵשָׂו (esav)

Esav means “Esau” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6215
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 82
Books 7

Strong's H6215 Quick Answer

Strong's H6215 עֵשָֽׂו׃ is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `Esav (ay-sawv') n/p. 1. rough (i.e. sensibly felt) 2. Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity It has 82 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include esau, esau's, sons, am, and isaac. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
`Esav (ay-sawv') n/p. 1. rough (i.e. sensibly felt) 2. Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity
Usage
82 linked usages
Books
7 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
esau, esau's, sons, am, and isaac

Meaning and Definition

`Esav (ay-sawv') n/p. 1. rough (i.e. sensibly felt) 2. Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity [apparently a form of the passive participle of H6213 in the original sense of handling] KJV: Esau.

Original Word
עֵשָֽׂו׃

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6215. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Esau

Usage: 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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How Strong's H6215 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's H6215, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Esau Genesis 25:25 44× Esau's Genesis 25:26 sons 1 Chronicles 1:34 Isaac Joshua 24:4 am Genesis 27:19

How Strong's H6215 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 82 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6215 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6215 in the Old Testament

82 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 25:25 KJV

And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Genesis 25:26 KJV

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Genesis 25:27 KJV

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Usage Excerpts

First 82 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6215.

Genesis 25:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
Genesis 25:26 Old Testament, KJV
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Genesis 25:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 25:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
Genesis 25:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Genesis 25:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Genesis 25:34 Old Testament, KJV
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis 26:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis 27:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Genesis 27:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Genesis 27:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Genesis 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
Genesis 27:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Genesis 27:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 27:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
Genesis 27:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Genesis 27:23 Old Testament, KJV
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
Genesis 27:24 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
Genesis 27:30 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Genesis 27:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
Genesis 27:34 Old Testament, KJV
And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
Genesis 27:37 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
Genesis 27:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 27:41 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis 27:42 Old Testament, KJV
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
Genesis 28:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis 28:6 Old Testament, KJV
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
Genesis 28:8 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Genesis 28:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Genesis 32:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis 32:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
Genesis 32:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
Genesis 32:8 Old Testament, KJV
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
Genesis 32:11 Old Testament, KJV
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Genesis 32:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
Genesis 32:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
Genesis 32:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Genesis 32:19 Old Testament, KJV
And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
Genesis 33:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Genesis 33:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis 33:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
Genesis 33:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:16 Old Testament, KJV
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
Genesis 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis 35:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 36:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
Genesis 36:2 Old Testament, KJV
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis 36:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Genesis 36:5 Old Testament, KJV
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36:8 Old Testament, KJV
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36:9 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis 36:10 Old Testament, KJV
These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
Genesis 36:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:13 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:14 Old Testament, KJV
And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:15 Old Testament, KJV
These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
Genesis 36:17 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:18 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
Genesis 36:19 Old Testament, KJV
These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
Genesis 36:40 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
Genesis 36:43 Old Testament, KJV
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
Deuteronomy 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Deuteronomy 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Deuteronomy 2:22 Old Testament, KJV
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy 2:29 Old Testament, KJV
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
Joshua 24:4 Old Testament, KJV
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
1 Chronicles 1:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
1 Chronicles 1:35 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Jeremiah 49:8 Old Testament, KJV
Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
Jeremiah 49:10 Old Testament, KJV
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
Obadiah 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
Obadiah 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
Obadiah 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
Obadiah 1:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Obadiah 1:19 Old Testament, KJV
And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
Obadiah 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Malachi 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Malachi 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6215, grouped by book.

Genesis 63 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 6 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Obadiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Malachi 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H6215 FAQ

What does esav (עֵשָׂו) mean?

Esav (Strong's H6215) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Esau". `Esav (ay-sawv') n/p. 1. rough (i.e. sensibly felt) 2. Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity

How many times is esav (עֵשָׂו) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 82 linked usages for Strong's H6215 across 7 books.

Where can I study esav (עֵשָׂו) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6215 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate esav (עֵשָׂו)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as esau, esau's, sons, am, and isaac. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.