Senses
1. Esau (personal name, son of Isaac) — The proper noun 'Esav refers to the firstborn son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, and ancestor of the Edomites. All four clusters represent the same individual with only morphosyntactic variation: bare nominative, with preposition lamed ('to/for Esau'), with conjunctive waw ('and Esau'), and minor spelling variants. Multilingual glosses are entirely consistent: Spanish 'Esav/Esau', Hindi 'Esav', Arabic 'Iysuw' throughout, Korean 'Eseo/Eseu', and Swahili 'Esau'. No semantic distinction exists between any of these clusters. 97×
AR["عيسو","عِيسُو"]·ben["এষৌ","এষৌর","ঐষৌ","ঐষৌর"]·DE["Esaw","Esaws"]·EN["Esau"]·FR["Ésaü"]·heb["עשו","עשו ׀"]·HI["एसाव","एसाव-की","एसाव-के","एसाव-ने","एसाव-से"]·ID["Esau"]·IT["Esaù"]·jav["Esau","Ésau"]·KO["에서","에서가","에서는","에서라","에서를","에서의"]·PT["'Esav"]·RU["Исав","Исава","Исавом","Исаву"]·ES["Esav"]·SW["Esau","cha-Esau","ya-Esau","za-Esau"]·TR["Esav","Esav'ın","ve-adını-koydu","çünkü"]·urd["عیسو","عیسو-نے","عیسو-کی","عیسو-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
עֵשָׂו97 n.pr.m. Esau, Ησαυ;—Esau, elder son of Isaac Gn 25:25, 26 + 7 times 25, 26:34; 27:1 + 24 times 27, 28; 32:4 + 15 times 32, 33, 35; Jos 24:4(×2) Mal 1:2, 3; 1 Ch 1:34; identif. with אֱדוֹם Gn 36:1, 8, 19, ancestor of Edomites v 9, 43, cf. 1 Ch 1:35; dwelling in Mt. Seir Gn 36:8 (25 times in all, Gn 36) Dt 2:5; Jos 24:4; בְּנֵי עֵשָׂו = Edomites Dt 2:4, 8, 12, 22, 29; עֵשָׂו = Edom Je 49:8; Ob 6, בֵּית עֵשָׂו v 18(×2), הַר עֵשָׂו v 8, 9, 19, 21.