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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

/ ˈːɔː /

noun

  1. Bible son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright (Genesis 25)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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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His novels included “Esau,” “Four Meals,” “The Loves of Judith” and “Two She-Bears.”

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Easter is a reminder that hope takes work, Esau McCaulley says.

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