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# חֹסֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2633

**wealth** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wealth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2633/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫סֶן: n.m. wealth, treasure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2633/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 15:6 wealth, treasure (on relation to √ meaning cf. חַיִל)—ח׳ abs. Pr 15:6 + 2 times; cstr. Is 33:6; Je 20:5;—wealth, treasure, of individuals Pr 15:6 (ח׳ רַב, opp. נֶעְכָּ֑רֶת), Pr 27:24 (‖ נֵזֶר), Ez 22:25 (‖ יְקָר); of city ח׳ הָעִיר הַזֹּאת Je 20:5 (‖ יְגִיעַ, יְקָר, אוֹצָרוֹת); in transf. sense ח׳ יְשׁוּעֹת, wealth (or abundance VB) of salvations, ח׳ יְשׁ׳ חָכְמַת וָדָ֑עַת יִרְאַת י׳ הִיא אוֹצָרוֹ Is 33:6 and stability of thy times shall be abundance of salvations (helps, deliverances), etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wealth (4); the wealth (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.6/#tree)

בֵּ֣ית צַ֭דִּיק חֹ֣סֶן רָ֑ב וּבִתְבוּאַ֖ת רָשָׁ֣ע נֶעְכָּֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* \[is.the\].house of.a.righteous.\[person\] wealth great and with.\[the\] income of.a.wicked.\[person\] \[is\].trouble

*JPS 1917:* In the house of the righteous is much treasure; but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

[Proverbs 27:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.24/#tree)

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א לְעוֹלָ֣ם חֹ֑סֶן וְאִם־נֵ֝֗זֶר לְד֣וֹר וָדֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not \[is\] forever wealth and if a.crown \[is\].to a.generation and a.generation

*JPS 1917:* For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2633.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2633/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).