Strong's #6238: `ashar (pronounced aw-shar')
a primitive root; properly, to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich:--be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make (1 Kings 22:48 marg). See 6240.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛âshar
1) to be or become rich or wealthy, enrich, pretend to be rich
1a) (Qal) to be or become rich
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to make rich
1b2) to gain riches
1c) (Hithpael) to enrich oneself, pretend to be rich
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Genesis 14:23: "any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:"
1 Samuel 2:7: "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up."
1 Samuel 17:25: "who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter,"
Job 15:29: "He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection"
Psalms 49:16: "thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;"
Psalms 65:9: "the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water:"
Proverbs 10:4: "hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich."
Proverbs 10:22: "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with"
Proverbs 13:7: "There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches."
Proverbs 21:17: "wine and oil shall not be rich."
Proverbs 23:4: "Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom."
Proverbs 28:20: "shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent."
Jeremiah 5:27: "of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich."
Ezekiel 27:33: "out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude"
Daniel 11:2: "kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all:"
Hosea 12:8: "And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors"
Zechariah 11:5: "and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity"
