noun · masculine
ēsau
Strong’sG2269
Esau
stem ēsau-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Ἠσαῦ, ὁ,
indecl. (Heb. עֵשָׂו, Ge 25:25),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2269 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiday-sow'
Esau, an Edomite
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesEsau.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
indecl. (Heb. עֵשָׂו,
Esau:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ēsau1×Ἠσαῦ | ēsau |
| object accusative | ēsau2×Ἠσαῦ | ēsau |
| direct address vocative | ēsau | ēsau |
| of, belonging to genitive | ēsau | ēsau |
| to, for dative | ēsau | ēsau |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
ēsau“Esau”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 12:16mē tinos pornos ē bebēlos hōs Ēsau, hos anti brōsiau henau apodōeta teim …… sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold …
ēsau“Esau”objectaccusative singular2×
Romans 9:13… grafotē; Ton Iakōb agapama, ton de Ēsau misama.… is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Hebrews 11:20… eulogata Isaak ton Iakōb kai ton Ēsau.By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.