Esau
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(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
Types & categories
- son instance hypernym
Related & opposite
- Old Testament domain topic
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Old Testament |
| 1 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | son |