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# רָכַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7408

**collect** — 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

collect [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7408/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָכַשׁ: vb. collect, gather property [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7408/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. collect, gather property, vb. only P (rare) (Mand. רכש gather, NorbergLexid. 231; Assyrian rukûšu, property (HptHbr iii. 110 riding anim.); Aramaic רִכְשָׁא, ܪܰܟܫܳܐ = BH רֶכֶשׁ);— Pf. 3 ms. ר׳, acc. קִנְיָן, Gn 31:18b; 36:6; elsewhere c. acc. cogn. אֲשֶׁר רָכָ֑שׁ ׃רְכוּשׁ 31:18a, 3 pl. רָֽכְשׁוּ 46:6, רָכָ֑שׁוּ 12:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he had accumulated (3); they had accumulated (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 46:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.6/#tree)

וַיִּקְח֣וּ אֶת־מִקְנֵיהֶ֗ם וְאֶת־רְכוּשָׁם֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר רָֽכְשׁוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ מִצְרָ֑יְמָה יַעֲקֹ֖ב וְכָל־זַרְע֥וֹ אִתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) livestock their and (et) possession\[s\] their which they.had.accumulated in the.land of.Canaan and they.came to Egypt Jacob and all offspring his with him

*JPS 1917:* And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;

[Genesis 31:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.18/#tree)

וַיִּנְהַ֣ג אֶת־כָּל־מִקְנֵ֗הוּ וְאֶת־כָּל־רְכֻשׁוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר רָכָ֔שׁ מִקְנֵה֙ קִנְיָנ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָכַ֖שׁ בְּפַדַּ֣נ אֲרָ֑ם פַדַּ֣נ אֲרָ֑ם לָב֛וֹא אֶל־יִצְחָ֥ק אָבִ֖יו אַ֥רְצָה כְּנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* and he.drove (et) all livestock his and (et) all possession\[s\] his which he.had.accumulated the.livestock his.acquisition his which he.had.accumulated in Paddan Aram to go to Isaac father his the.land to of.Canaan

*JPS 1917:* and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7408.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7408/): 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).