Esau
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In the Torah, Amalek refers to descendants of Esau who are known as the Israelites’ sworn enemy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
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 • Oct. 31, 2025
In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San people.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
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 • May 11, 2023
No, even the Bible said that Isaac had favored Esau.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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