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# רוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7326

**be in want** — used 24 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

be in want [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7326/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רוּשׁ: vb. be in want, poor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7326/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be in want, poor (related to ירשׁ \[cf. 3, 3

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 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: \[one who is\] poor (8); poor (7); of \[one who is\] poor (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.23/#tree)

תַּחֲנוּנִ֥ים יְדַבֶּר־רָ֑שׁ וְ֝עָשִׁ֗יר יַעֲנֶ֥ה עַזּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* supplications he.speaks \[one.who.is\].poor and a.rich.\[person\] he.answers strong.\[words\]

*JPS 1917:* The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth impudently.

[Psalms 82:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.3/#tree)

שִׁפְטוּ־דַ֥ל וְיָת֑וֹם עָנִ֖י וָרָ֣שׁ הַצְדִּֽיקוּ׃

*Word for word:* give.judgment.for \[the\].poor and.\[the\] fatherless \[the\].afflicted and.\[the\] poor vindicate

*JPS 1917:* Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7326.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7326/): 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).