Esau

[ee-saw]

noun

1. (in the Bible) a son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright.

Esau

/ ˈiːsɔː /

noun

1. Bible son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright (Genesis 25)

Example Sentences

The study of society emerged like Jacob after Esau, clutching the heel of the “secular study of something called religion.”

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As the young children enthusiastically sang out phrases, Esau interjected occasionally to correct their pronunciation of the distinct sounds and deep clicks of her mother tongue, of which she is the last first-language speaker.

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This Father’s Day, Esau McCaulley recounts how he learned to forgive his father, who struggled with addiction.

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When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language".

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"We became ashamed when we were young girls, and we stopped speaking the language," Esau told Reuters.

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