Word

הוֹן

hôwn · H1952 · Hebrew · 26 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. wealth

    A large quantity of valuable resources, ownership of which affects the way people think and live

    Examples

    Proverbs 1:13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with plunder;

    Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD from your wealth, And from the first of all your produce;

    Proverbs 6:31 But when he is found, he must repay seven times as much; He must give up all the property of his house.

  2. enough

    State of being sufficient in quantity for a given purpose

    Examples

    Proverbs 30:15 The leech has two daughters: “Give” and “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”:

    Proverbs 30:16 Sheol, the infertile womb, Earth that is never satisfied with water, And fire that never says, “Enough.”

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

9 occurrences in 6 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 5 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

6 occurrences in 5 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 5 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Objects001
הוֹן denotes wealth or substance as tangible possessions and goods, the material riches a person accumulates and holds as property.
Quantity002001001046
הוֹן also carries a quantitative sense of abundance or sufficiency, as in the idiom for something existing in enough measure or plenty.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1952. hon הוֺן noun masculinePro 8:18, wealth, sufficiency (in poetry, almost wholly…
H1952. hon
הוֺן noun masculinePro 8:18, wealth, sufficiency (in poetry, almost wholly Wisdom Literature, especially Proverbs; compare I.אוֺן above) — absolute הוֺן Pro 1:13 Pro 1:15t. + Eze 27:12, Eze 27:18 (where ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Co הוֺנֵךְ); construct Pro 6:31 Pro 6:3t.; suffix הוֺנָ֑ךָ Pro 3:9; הוֺנֵךְ Eze 27:27 + Eze 27:12; Eze 27:18 Co; הוֺנוֺ Pro 28:8; plural suffix הוֺנַיִךְ Eze 27:33 —
1 wealth Psa 112:3 (|| עשֶׁר) Pro 8:18 (|| id.) Pro 1:13 (|| שָׁלָל) compare עָשִׁיר הוֺן Pro 10:15 (opposed to דַּלִּים), Pro 18:11; Pro 3:9 (|| כָּלתְּֿבוּאָתָ֑ךָ רֵאשִׁית) בֵּיתוֺ הוֺן Pro 6:31; Son 8:7 וָהוֺן בַּיִת Pro 19:14; see Pro 19:4 (opposed to דָּל) Pro 28:8 (opposed to דַּלִּים); also Psa 119:14; Pro 11:4; Pro 12:27; Pro 13:7, Pro 13:11; Pro 24:4; Pro 28:22 (opposed to חֶסֶר) Pro 29:3; Eze 27:12, Eze 27:18, Eze 27:27, Eze 27:33.
2 with מָכַר + בְּ pretii, = high value, or price הוֺן בְּלֹא עַמְּךָ תִּעמכֹּר Psa 44:13 — i.e. cheaply, = 'for no price at all' (|| מחיר).
3 sufficiency, enough! in exclamation Pro 30:15-16, (so also ᵑ7 ᵐ5, Aq Symm Theod ἁρκεῖ).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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