Person

Esau

Esav

עֵשָׂו

Hairy. Also called Edom.

aka: Edom

Esau is Jacob’s brother. He is also called Edom, and his descendants are the Edomites, settled in Seir.

Strong’s

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עֵשָׂו H6215

ʻÊsâv · ay-sawv'

Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity

apparently a form of the passive participle of H6213 (עָשָׂה) in the original sense of handling; rough (i.e. sensibly felt);

KJV glosses: Esau.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

עֵשָׂו H6215

Biblical Hebrew

עֵשָׂו97 proper name, masculine Esau, Ησαυ; — Esau, elder son of Isaac Gen 25:25; Gen 25:26 + 7 t. 25, Gen 26:34; Gen 27:1 + 24 t. Gen 27:27; Gen 27:28, Gen 32:4 + 15 t. Gen 32:32; Gen 32:33; Gen 32:35, Josh 24:4 (twice in verse); Mal 1:2; Mal 1:3; 1Chr 1:34 identification with אֱדוֺם Gen 36:1; Gen 36:8; Gen 36:19, ancestor of Edomites vGen 36:9 vGen 36:43, compare 1Chr 1:35 dwelling in Mt. Seir Gen 36:8 (25 t. in all, Gen 36) Deut 2:5; Josh 24:4 בְּנֵי עֵשָׂו = Edomites Deut 2:4; Deut 2:8; Deut 2:12; Deut 2:22; Deut 2:29 עֵשָׂו = Edom Jer 49:8; Obad 1:6, בֵּית עֵשָׂו vJer 49:18 vJer 49:18, הַר עֵשָׂו vJer 49:18 vJer 49:9 vJer 49:19 vJer 49:21.