HebrewH6249Noun

עַשְׁתֵּי

ash.te

17Occurrences
H6249Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

eleven or (ordinal) eleventh

apparently masculine plural construction of H6247 (עֶשֶׁת) in the sense of an afterthought (used only in connection with H6240 (עָשָׂר) in lieu of H259 (אֶחָד))

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. one, eleven, eleventh 1a) one as combined with ten ( a.sar (*עָשָׂר *"ten" H6240))

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

עַשְׁתֵּי appears 17 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
4
1 Chronicles
3
Jeremiah
3
Ezk
2
Numbers
2
2 Kings
1
Deuteronomy
1
Zechariah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 24:12BSB

the eleventh to Eliashib,the twelfth to Jakim,

2 Kings 25:2BSB

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

Exodus 26:8BSB

Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

Ezk 26:1BSB

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Jeremiah 39:2BSB

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.