עשור

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עָשׂוֹר • (asór) m (singular construct עֲשׂוֹר־)

1. (archaic, Biblical Hebrew) A period of ten days.
   • Tanach, Genesis 24:55, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיֹּאמֶר אָחִיהָ וְאִמָּהּ תֵּשֵׁב הַנַּעֲרָ אִתָּנוּ יָמִים אֹו עָשֹׂור אַחַר תֵּלֵֽךְ׃

     And her brother and her mother said: 'Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.'

   • Tanach, Numbers 29:7, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וּבֶעָשׂוֹר לַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי הַזֶּה מִקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ יִהְיֶה לָכֶם וְעִנִּיתֶם אֶת־נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם כָּל־מְלָאכָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ׃

     And on the tenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls; ye shall do no manner of work;

2. A decade, a period of ten years.

עישור / עִשּׂוּר • (transliteration needed) m

1. defective spelling of עישור

• H6218 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “עשור” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• עשור on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he