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# רֵישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7389

**poverty** — used 7 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

poverty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7389/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִישׁ: n.m. poverty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7389/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. poverty, only Pr;—רִישׁ 28:19, sf. רִישׁוֹ 31:7; רֵישׁ 13:18, sf. רֵישֶׁ֑ךָ 24:34 (‖ מַחְסֹרֶיךָ), רֵישָׁם 10:15 (opp. עָשִׁיר); רֵאשׁ 30:8 (opp. עֹשֶׁר), sf. רֵאשֶׁ֑ךָ 6:11 (= 24:34, ‖ id.).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 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: poverty (7).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.15/#tree)

ה֣וֹן עָ֭שִׁיר קִרְיַ֣ת עֻזּ֑וֹ מְחִתַּ֖ת דַּלִּ֣ים רֵישָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wealth of.a.rich.\[person\] \[is\].the.town his.strength his \[is.the\].ruin of.poor.\[people\] poverty their

*JPS 1917:* The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

[Proverbs 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.18/#tree)

רֵ֣ישׁ וְ֭קָלוֹן פּוֹרֵ֣עַ מוּסָ֑ר וְשׁוֹמֵ֖ר תּוֹכַ֣חַת יְכֻבָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* poverty and shame \[one.who\].ignores discipline and \[one.who\].keeps correction he.is.honored

*JPS 1917:* Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7389.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7389/): 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).