Strong's #3423: yarash (pronounced yaw-rash')
or yaresh {yaw-raysh'}; a primitive root; to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin:--cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, X without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) + magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, X utterly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
yârash / yârêsh
1) to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to take possession of
1a2) to inherit
1a3) to impoverish, come to poverty, be poor
1b) (Niphal) to be dispossessed, be impoverished, come to poverty
1c) (Piel) to devour
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to possess or inherit
1d2) to cause others to possess or inherit
1d3) to impoverish
1d4) to dispossess
1d5) to destroy, bring to ruin, disinherit
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 231 times:
Deuteronomy 33:23: "and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess and the south."
Joshua 1:11: "this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD"
Joshua 1:11: "the LORD your God giveth you to possess"
Joshua 1:15: "your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed which"
Joshua 1:15: "giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's"
Joshua 3:10: "the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out you"
Joshua 3:10: "the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out you, and that he will without fail drive out you"
Joshua 8:7: "Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD"
Joshua 12:1: "the children of Israel smote, and possessed on the other side Jordan"
Joshua 13:1: "yet very much land to be possessed."
Joshua 13:6: "and all the Sidonians, drive out from before the children of Israel:"
Joshua 13:12: "of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out."
Joshua 13:13: "Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites"
Joshua 14:12: "if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said."
Joshua 15:14: "And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak,"
Joshua 15:63: "of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites with the children"
Joshua 16:10: " And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell"
Joshua 17:12: "of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites"
Joshua 17:13: "the Canaanites to tribute; utterly drive them out."
Joshua 17:13: "the Canaanites to tribute; utterly drive them out. utterly drive them out."
Joshua 17:18: "and the outgoings of it shall be thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron"
Joshua 18:3: "How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which"
Joshua 19:47: "it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan,"
Joshua 21:43: "he swore to give and they possessed it, and dwelt"
Joshua 23:5: "he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess"
Joshua 23:5: "them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess"
Joshua 23:9: "For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you,"
Joshua 23:13: "the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these"
Joshua 24:4: "mount to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt."
Joshua 24:8: "with them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before"
Judges 1:19: "was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not"
Judges 1:19: "the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because"
Judges 1:20: "as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three"
Judges 1:21: "And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites"
Judges 1:27: "Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns,"
Judges 1:28: "the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out."
Judges 1:28: "the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out."
Judges 1:29: "Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites"
Judges 1:30: "Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol;"
Judges 1:31: "Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon,"
Judges 1:32: "of the land: for they did not drive them out."
Judges 1:33: "Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath;"
Judges 2:6: "went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land."
Judges 2:21: "also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of"
Judges 2:23: "those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither he them into the hand"
Judges 3:13: "and smote and possessed the city of palm trees."
Judges 11:21: "and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites,"
Judges 11:22: " And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto"
Judges 11:23: "the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before"
Judges 11:23: "from before his people and shouldest thou possess"
