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# עֹשֶׁר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6239

**riches** — used 37 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/1506/6239/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫שֶׁר: n.m. riches [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6239/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 18:17, 25 riches;—ע׳ abs. Gn 31:16 + 27 times, cstr. Est 1:4; sf. עָשְׁרוֹ Je 9:22 + 5 times, עָשְׁרָם ψ 49:7 Pr 14:24; + (or ‖) כָּבוֹד 1 K 3:13 Pr 3:16 + 9 times; עָשָׂה ע׳ Je 17:11, cf. Eng. ‘make money.’

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wealth (28); rich\[es\] (3); \[is\] wealth (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.24/#tree)

עֲטֶ֣רֶת חֲכָמִ֣ים עָשְׁרָ֑ם אִוֶּ֖לֶת כְּסִילִ֣ים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].crown of.wise.\[people\] wealth \[is\].their \[the\].folly of.fools \[is\].folly

*JPS 1917:* The crown of the wise is their riches; but the folly of fools remaineth folly.

[Proverbs 11:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.16/#tree)

אֵֽשֶׁת־חֵ֭ן תִּתְמֹ֣ךְ כָּב֑וֹד וְ֝עָרִיצִ֗ים יִתְמְכוּ־עֹֽשֶׁר׃

*Word for word:* a.woman of.grace she.lays.hold.of honor and ruthless.\[people\] they.take.hold.of wealth

*JPS 1917:* A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6239.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6239/): 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).