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:
Judges 11:24: "Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever"
Judges 11:24: "that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD"
Judges 11:24: "So whomsoever the LORD shall drive out from before us, them will we possess."
Judges 11:24: "the LORD shall drive out from before us, them will we possess."
Judges 14:15: "house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not"
Judges 18:7: "quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing;"
Judges 18:9: "be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land."
1 Samuel 2:7: "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up."
2 Samuel 14:7: "he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal"
1 Kings 14:24: "of the nations which cast out before the children of Israel."
1 Kings 21:15: "Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite,"
1 Kings 21:16: "the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession"
1 Kings 21:18: "of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess"
1 Kings 21:19: "the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? unto him, saying, Thus"
1 Kings 21:26: "did the Amorites, whom cast out before the children"
2 Kings 16:3: "of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children"
2 Kings 17:8: "of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel,"
2 Kings 17:24: "and from Sepharvaim, and placed of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed"
2 Kings 21:2: "of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out the children of Israel."
1 Chronicles 28:8: "of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance"
2 Chronicles 20:7: "Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land"
2 Chronicles 20:11: "us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit."
2 Chronicles 28:3: "of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:2: "of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out the children of Israel."
Ezra 9:11: "unto which ye to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people"
Ezra 9:12: "and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever."
Nehemiah 9:15: "for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst to possess the land"
Nehemiah 9:22: "and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon,"
Nehemiah 9:23: "thou hadst promised that they should go in to possess"
Nehemiah 9:24: "So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them"
Nehemiah 9:25: "cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all"
Job 13:26: "thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth."
Job 20:15: "riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly."
Psalms 25:13: "shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth."
Psalms 37:9: "but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth."
Psalms 37:11: "But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."
Psalms 37:22: "For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off."
Psalms 37:29: "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever."
Psalms 37:34: "and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked thou shalt see"
Psalms 44:2: "How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out."
Psalms 44:3: "For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save"
Psalms 69:35: "of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession."
Psalms 83:12: "Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God"
Psalms 105:44: "And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people;"
Proverbs 20:13: "not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
Proverbs 23:21: "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
Proverbs 30:9: "Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, the name of my God"
Proverbs 30:23: "she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress."
Isaiah 14:21: "of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, the face of the world"
Isaiah 34:11: "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon"
