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Definition of esau in English English dictionary: The son of Isaac and Rebekah and the older twin brother of Jacob
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.; in the Old Testament of the Bible, the son of Isaac, and the older brother of Jacob, whose twin (=one of two children born at the same time) he was. Esau was very hungry and so he sold his birthright (=the property or possessions that he had a right to receive from his parents) to Jacob for "a mess of pottage", that is, for some soup that Jacob had made; {i} Edom, firstborn son of Isaac and Rebekah who sold his birthright to his brother Jacob (Biblical); Brother to Jacob; The first son of Isaac and Rebekah, the twin of Jacob; he was the ancestor of the Edomites See Chapter 2; (Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage; Firstborn son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob (Gen 25: 25-34), Esau gave up his birthright to his cleverer sibling (Gen 27-28), thus becoming the prototype of the person who is insensitive to his heritage (Heb 12: 16) He was thought of as the progenitor of the Edomites, traditional enemies of Jacob's descendants (Israel) (Gen 36); O T

esau

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E·sau

isô

/ˈēˌsô/ /ˈiːˌsɔː/

[ 'E-(")so ] (noun.) From Classical Hebrew עֵשָׂו (ʿĒśāw; Modern: Eisav).

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