Strong's #7326: ruwsh (pronounced roosh)

a primitive root; to be destitute:--lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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rûsh

1) to be poor, be in want, lack

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be poor

1a2) to be in want or hunger

1a3) poor man (substantive)

1b) (Hithpolel) one impoverishing himself (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

 

1 Samuel 18:23: "thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"
2 Samuel 12:1: "the one rich, and the other poor."
2 Samuel 12:3: " But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb,"
2 Samuel 12:4: "and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's"
Psalms 34:10: "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any"
Psalms 82:3: "and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
Proverbs 10:4: " He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich."
Proverbs 13:7: "There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches."
Proverbs 13:8: "of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke."
Proverbs 13:23: "Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment."
Proverbs 14:20: " The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich hath many friends."
Proverbs 17:5: "Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished."
Proverbs 18:23: " The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly."
Proverbs 19:1: "Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool."
Proverbs 19:7: "All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far"
Proverbs 19:22: "The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar."
Proverbs 22:2: "The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all."
Proverbs 22:7: "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."
Proverbs 28:3: " A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food."
Proverbs 28:6: "Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he"
Proverbs 28:27: "He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse."
Proverbs 29:13: " The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes."
Ecclesiastes 4:14: "to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor."
Ecclesiastes 5:8: "If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province,"