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# נְכָסִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5233

**riches** — 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

riches [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5233/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫כֶס: n.m. riches, treasures [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5233/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jos 22:8 only pl. נְכָסִים riches, treasures (prob. Assyrian or Aramaic loan-word, cf. Assyrian nikâsu, property, wealth, gain, DlHWB 463, Syriac ܢܶܟܵܣܶܐ wealth;—Jos 22:8 (P), 2 Ch 1:11, 12 Ec 6:2 (all ‖ עֹשֶׁר, כָּבוֹד), 5:18 (‖ עֹשֶׁר)).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: riches (5).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.1.12/#tree)

הַֽחָכְמָ֥ה וְהַמַּדָּ֖ע נָת֣וּן לָ֑ךְ וְעֹ֨שֶׁר וּנְכָסִ֤ים וְכָבוֹד֙ אֶתֶּן־לָ֔ךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ לֹא־הָ֣יָה כֵ֗ן לַמְּלָכִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְפָנֶ֔יךָ וְאַחֲרֶ֖יךָ לֹ֥א יִֽהְיֶה־כֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* the wisdom and the knowledge \[is\].given to you and wealth and riches and honor I.will.give to you which not it.belonged thus to the kings who \[were\] before you and after you not it.will.belong thus

*JPS 1917:* wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee, and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.'

[Ecclesiastes 5:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.18/#tree)

גַּ֣ם כָּֽל־הָאָדָ֡ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָֽתַן־ל֣וֹ הָאֱלֹהִים֩ עֹ֨שֶׁר וּנְכָסִ֜ים וְהִשְׁלִיט֨וֹ לֶאֱכֹ֤ל מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ וְלָשֵׂ֣את אֶת־חֶלְק֔וֹ וְלִשְׂמֹ֖חַ בַּעֲמָל֑וֹ זֹ֕ה מַתַּ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* also every (the) person whom he.has.given to him (the) God wealth and riches and he has.given.him.power to eat from it and to receive (et) portion his and to take.pleasure in toil his this \[is\].a.gift of.God it

*JPS 1917:* Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour — this is the gift of God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5233.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5233/): 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).