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# רְכוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7399

**property** — used 28 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

property [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7399/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְכוּשׁ: n.m. property, goods [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7399/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 13, 6 property, goods;—abs. רְכוּשׁ Nu 16:32 +, רְכֻשׁ Gn 14:16, 21; cstr. רְכוּשׁ 2 Ch 35:7, רְכֻשׁ Gn 14:11; sf. רְכֻשׁוֹ v 12 +, רְכוּשָׁם 12:5 +, etc.;—property, goods, PRChr Dn Gn 14: gen. term for movable possessions of all kinds (often specif. incl. cattle), Gn 12:5; 15:14; Nu 16:32; 1 Ch 27:31; 28:1; 2 Ch 31:3; 32:29; Ezr 8:21; 10:8. used specif. of cattle, flocks, etc. Gn 13:6; 31:18; 36:7; Nu 35:3; 2 Ch 35:7. of stores, utensils, etc. Gn 46:6; Ezr 1:4, 6, as camp-baggage Dn 11:13, especially as booty Gn 14:11, 12, 16(×2), 21; 2 Ch 20:25; 21:14, 17; Dn 11:24, 28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: property (13); possession\[s\] (10); the property (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.11/#tree)

וַ֠יִּקְחוּ אֶת־כָּל־רְכֻ֨שׁ סְדֹ֧ם וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה וְאֶת־כָּל־אָכְלָ֖ם וַיֵּלֵֽכוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) all the.possession\[s\] of.Sodom and Gomorrah and (et) all food their and they.went

*JPS 1917:* And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

[Genesis 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.14/#tree)

וְגַ֧ם אֶת־הַגּ֛וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַעֲבֹ֖דוּ דָּ֣ן אָנֹ֑כִי וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֥ן יֵצְא֖וּ בִּרְכֻ֥שׁ גָּדֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* and also (et) the nation which they.will.serve \[will.be\].judging I and after thus they.will.come.out with possession\[s\] great

*JPS 1917:* and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7399.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7399/): 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).