Eshean אשען
Eshean (אשען) is the name of a place in the Tanakh — Eshan. Eshean appears 251,052 times as an equidistant letter sequence in the Torah across every skip (2–101,616), 4.4% more than chance alone would give (about 240,535; probability 7.1 × 10⁻¹⁰¹).
- Found in the Torah · every skip
- 251,052
- Chance alone · every skip
- 240,535
- P (≥ found) · every skip
- 7.1 × 10⁻¹⁰¹
- Shortest skip
- 2
- Longest skip found
- 101,323
Every skip the Torah allows for a spelling of 4 letters (2–101,616), both directions, final letters folded, the written text.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 23,016 found · chance alone about 23,084 (probability of 23,016 or more by chance alone: 0.67).
In the Torah
Across every skip (2–101,616), אשען appears 251,052 times in the Torah — 4.4% more than the 240,535 chance alone would give; the probability of 251,052 or more by chance alone is 7.1 × 10⁻¹⁰¹.
The shortest skip at which אשען appears in the Torah is 2 — at Genesis 34:30, reading forward.
The longest skip at which אשען was found in the Torah is 101,323 — at Deuteronomy 34:7, reading backward; a spelling of 4 letters fits the Torah at skips up to 101,616.
By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip
- Genesis 64,317
- Exodus 49,632
- Leviticus 41,342
- Numbers 49,907
- Deuteronomy 45,854
Examples across the range
5 of the 251,052 sequences, chosen across the range of skips — the shortest, mid-range skips and the longest found — each with its verse and its matrix.
Under each example, every letter of the sequence is listed with the verse it stands in. A letter falls in its verse by position alone — one letter every so many letters of the text — so the verses are where the letters stand, not part of the sequence's meaning.
Letter by letter
- א ש ע ןGenesis 34:30
וַיֹּאמֶר יַעֲקֹב אֶל־שִׁמְעוֹן וְאֶל־לֵוִי עֲכַרְתֶּם אֹתִי לְהַבְאִישֵׁנִי …
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: ‘Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 50,665 of the TorahOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
- א ש ע ןGenesis 34:30
Letter by letter
- א ש ע ןGenesis 42:24
וַיִּסֹּב מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶם וַיֵּבְךְּ וַיָּשָׁב אֲלֵהֶם וַיְדַבֵּר אֲלֵהֶם וַיִּקַּח מֵֽאִתָּם אֶת־שִׁמְעוֹן וַיֶּאֱסֹר אֹתוֹ לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם
And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 64,176 of the TorahOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
- א ש ע ןGenesis 42:24
- אLeviticus 15:31
וְהִזַּרְתֶּם אֶת־בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל מִטֻּמְאָתָם וְלֹא יָמֻתוּ בְּטֻמְאָתָם בְּטַמְּאָם אֶת־מִשְׁכָּנִי אֲשֶׁר בְּתוֹכָֽם
Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is in the midst of them.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
- שLeviticus 15:33
וְהַדָּוָה בְּנִדָּתָהּ וְהַזָּב אֶת־זוֹבוֹ לַזָּכָר וְלַנְּקֵבָה וּלְאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב עִם־טְמֵאָֽה
and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of them that have an issue, whether it be a man, or a woman; and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
- עLeviticus 16:2
… אַהֲרֹן אָחִיךָ וְאַל־יָבֹא בְכָל־עֵת אֶל־הַקֹּדֶשׁ מִבֵּית לַפָּרֹכֶת אֶל …
and the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the ark-cover which is upon the ark; that he die not; for I appear in the cloud upon the ark-cover.
- נLeviticus 16:4
כְּתֹֽנֶת־בַּד קֹדֶשׁ יִלְבָּשׁ וּמִֽכְנְסֵי־בַד …
He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired; they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on.
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 165,839 of the TorahOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
- אLeviticus 15:31
- אExodus 32:17
וַיִּשְׁמַע יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אֶת־קוֹל הָעָם בְּרֵעֹה וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל־מֹשֶׁה קוֹל מִלְחָמָה בַּֽמַּחֲנֶה
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: ‘There is a noise of war in the camp.’
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
- שExodus 32:35
וַיִּגֹּף יְהוָה אֶת־הָעָם עַל אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ אֶת־הָעֵגֶל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה אַהֲרֹֽן
And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
- עExodus 33:16
… עִמָּנוּ וְנִפְלֵינוּ אֲנִי וְעַמְּךָ מִכָּל־הָעָם אֲשֶׁר עַל־פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָֽה
For wherein now shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?’
- נExodus 34:11
… הִנְנִי גֹרֵשׁ מִפָּנֶיךָ אֶת־הָאֱמֹרִי וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִי וְהַחִתִּי וְהַפְּרִזִּי וְהַחִוִּי וְהַיְבוּסִֽי
Observe thou that which I am commanding thee this day; behold, I am driving out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
skip 1,000, width 1,000 — one row is 1,000 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 126,709 of the TorahOpen at skip 1,000 in the laboratory →
- אExodus 32:17
- אDeuteronomy 34:7
וּמֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה בְּמֹתוֹ לֹֽא־כָהֲתָה עֵינוֹ וְלֹא־נָס לֵחֹֽה
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
- שNumbers 8:17
כִּי לִי כָל־בְּכוֹר בִּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּאָדָם וּבַבְּהֵמָה בְּיוֹם הַכֹּתִי כָל …
For all the first-born among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.
- עExodus 16:12
… יִשְׂרָאֵל דַּבֵּר אֲלֵהֶם לֵאמֹר בֵּין הָֽעַרְבַּיִם תֹּאכְלוּ בָשָׂר וּבַבֹּקֶר תִּשְׂבְּעוּ־לָחֶם …
’I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them, saying: At dusk ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.’
- נGenesis 1:12
… עֹֽשֶׂה־פְּרִי אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ־בוֹ לְמִינֵהוּ וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים כִּי־טֽוֹב
And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
skip 101,323, width 101,323 — one row is 101,323 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column. letter 304,535 of the TorahOpen at skip 101,323 in the laboratory →
- אDeuteronomy 34:7
Across the Tanakh
3,148,718 sequences of אשען across every skip (2–399,013) in the whole Tanakh, close to the 3,198,083 that chance alone would produce.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 78,675 found · chance alone about 79,632 (probability of 78,675 or more by chance alone: 1.00).
By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip
- Genesis 261,003
- Exodus 183,829
- Leviticus 144,099
- Numbers 181,636
- Deuteronomy 170,943
- Joshua 100,975
- Judges 113,843
- Samuel 287,652
- Kings 282,312
- Isaiah 152,930
- Jeremiah 223,751
- Ezekiel 188,912
- The Twelve 135,286
- Psalms 145,298
- Proverbs 46,670
- Job 75,202
- Song of Songs 8,929
- Ruth 13,393
- Lamentations 11,291
- Ecclesiastes 25,387
- Esther 25,415
- Daniel 66,505
- Ezra–Nehemiah 83,126
- Chronicles 220,331
Outside the Torah
Letter by letter
- א ש ע ןJudges 1:17
וַיֵּלֶךְ יְהוּדָה אֶת־שִׁמְעוֹן אָחִיו וַיַּכּוּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי יוֹשֵׁב …
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 345,614 of the TanakhOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
- א ש ע ןJudges 1:17
- אJeremiah 1:13
וַיְהִי דְבַר־יְהוָה אֵלַי שֵׁנִית לֵאמֹר מָה אַתָּה רֹאֶה …
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying: ‘What seest thou?’ And I said: ‘I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is from the north.’
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
- שJeremiah 1:15
כִּי הִנְנִי קֹרֵא לְכָֽל־מִשְׁפְּחוֹת מַמְלְכוֹת צָפוֹנָה נְאֻם־יְהוָה וּבָאוּ …
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
- עJeremiah 1:16
וְדִבַּרְתִּי מִשְׁפָּטַי אוֹתָם עַל כָּל־רָעָתָם אֲשֶׁר עֲזָבוּנִי וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ לֵאלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲווּ לְמַעֲשֵׂי יְדֵיהֶֽם
And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness; in that they have forsaken me, and have offered unto other gods, and worshipped the work of their own hands.
- ןJeremiah 1:17
… אָנֹכִי אֲצַוֶּךָּ אַל־תֵּחַת מִפְּנֵיהֶם פֶּֽן־אֲחִתְּךָ לִפְנֵיהֶֽם
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 643,089 of the TanakhOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
- אJeremiah 1:13
- א2 Chronicles 35:27
וּדְבָרָיו הָרִאשֹׁנִים וְהָאַחֲרֹנִים הִנָּם כְּתוּבִים עַל־סֵפֶר מַלְכֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל וִיהוּדָֽה
and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
- שEzekiel 46:9
… דֶּרֶךְ־שַׁעַר נֶגֶב וְהַבָּא דֶּרֶךְ־שַׁעַר נֶגֶב יֵצֵא דֶּרֶךְ־שַׁעַר צָפוֹנָה …
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the appointed seasons, he that entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate…
- ע1 Samuel 11:13
וַיֹּאמֶר שָׁאוּל לֹֽא־יוּמַת אִישׁ בַּיּוֹם הַזֶּה כִּי הַיּוֹם עָשָֽׂה־יְהוָה תְּשׁוּעָה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל
And Saul said: ‘There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day the LORD hath wrought deliverance in Israel.’
- נGenesis 1:24
וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים תּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְמִינָהּ בְּהֵמָה וָרֶמֶשׂ וְחַֽיְתוֹ־אֶרֶץ לְמִינָהּ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן
And God said: ‘Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.’ And it was so.
skip 398,106, width 398,106 — one row is 398,106 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column. letter 1,195,459 of the TanakhOpen at skip 398,106 in the laboratory →
- א2 Chronicles 35:27
The spelling
אשען — the Tanakh's own spelling: Eshan. Searched as אשען, 4 letters, with a standard gematria value of 421.
It does not stand as a plain word anywhere in the Tanakh. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →
Questions
Is Eshean in the Torah codes?
Across every skip (2–101,616), אשען appears 251,052 times in the Torah — 4.4% more than the 240,535 chance alone would give; the probability of 251,052 or more by chance alone is 7.1 × 10⁻¹⁰¹.
What is the shortest skip for Eshean in the Torah?
Skip 2, reading forward from Genesis 34:30 — the shortest of 251,052 sequences across every skip (2–101,616), where chance alone would give about 240,535.
What is the gematria of Eshean in Hebrew?
Eshean is spelled אשען — 4 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 421.
How many times is Eshean found in the whole Tanakh?
3,148,718 sequences of אשען across every skip (2–399,013) in the whole Tanakh, close to the 3,198,083 that chance alone would produce.
Search it yourself
The laboratory runs the same search live in your browser — every sequence, the matrix around it, and the chance figure (about 240,535 across every skip (2–101,616) here) beside the count.