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:
Isaiah 34:17: "for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation"
Isaiah 54:3: "on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities"
Isaiah 57:13: "vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess and shall inherit my holy mountain;"
Isaiah 60:21: "Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting,"
Isaiah 61:7: "in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess everlasting joy shall be"
Isaiah 63:18: "The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary."
Isaiah 65:9: "a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect"
Isaiah 65:9: "and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants"
Jeremiah 8:10: "their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one"
Jeremiah 30:3: "that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess"
Jeremiah 32:23: "And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law;"
Jeremiah 49:1: "Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? then doth their king inherit"
Jeremiah 49:1: "hath he no heir? then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people"
Jeremiah 49:2: "and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith"
Jeremiah 49:2: "with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD."
Ezekiel 7:24: "Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong"
Ezekiel 33:24: "Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many;"
Ezekiel 33:25: "your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?"
Ezekiel 33:26: "his neighbor's and shall ye possess the land?"
Ezekiel 35:10: "and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess was there:"
Ezekiel 36:12: "you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, more"
Hosea 9:6: "shall bury them: the pleasant nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles."
Amos 2:10: "of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land"
Amos 9:12: "That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which"
Obadiah 1:17: "holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions."
Obadiah 1:19: "And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines:"
Obadiah 1:19: "and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields"
Obadiah 1:20: "of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south."
Micah 1:15: "Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam"
Habakkuk 1:6: "which shall march of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not"
Zechariah 9:4: "Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured"
