Esau

American  

[ee-saw] / ˈi sɔ /

noun

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

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Esau British  

/ ˈiːsɔː /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

In the Torah, Amalek refers to descendants of Esau who are known as the Israelites’ sworn enemy.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From The Wall Street Journal

Esau never went to school but in 2023 was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Cape Town for her efforts to save N|uu.

From Barron's

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".

From Reuters

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

From Reuters