עָרִיץ
ʻârîyts · H6184 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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mighty, violent, ruthless
State in which a person is a strong and powerful enemy, who is thinks high of himself and is prone to violence, and usually does not fear God
ExamplesProverbs 11:16 A gracious woman attains honor, And ruthless men attain riches.
Isaiah 13:11 So I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their wrongdoing; I will also put an end to the audacity of the proud And humiliate the arrogance of the tyrants.
Isaiah 25:3 Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
How it’s used In 6 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
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- גּוֹיnation, people 4
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- זוּרstranger, strange 2
- עַםpeople 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
- אָפֵסto be finished 1
- תָּמַךְto grasp 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 8 groups
- גַּאֲוָהpride, majesty 1
- הָמוֹןmultitude, tumult, abundance 1
- זָמִירsinging 1
- יָדhand, power 1
- כַּףpalm, hand 1
- נַחֲלָהinheritance, heritage 1
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 6 entries
- Ferocious002001002009
- עָרִיץ describes ruthless, tyrannical people, as in Job's laments over the hand of tyrants and the ruthless whose years are numbered.
- Strong002001001063
- The word regularly describes one who is mighty or in great power, the same forceful strength that makes the ruthless dangerous.
- Great002001002012
- The word's sense of being in great power carries an association with an intensified degree of might, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which emphasize ruthlessness rather than scale.
- Enemies001001003002
- עָרִיץ is used of hostile oppressors, as in Job's plea to be redeemed from the hand of the enemy.
- Evil002001002007
- The word describes a wicked, violent disposition, as in the psalmist's picture of a wicked, violent person spreading himself like a flourishing tree.
- Guilty002003003014
- The word's association with oppression and violence ties it to culpability for wrongdoing, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which focus on the ruthless person's power and violence rather than their guilt as such.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6184. arits עָרִיץ adjective awe-inspiring, terror-striking; — ׳ע of עָרִיץ כְּגִבּוֺר…
עָרִיץ adjective awe-inspiring, terror-striking; — ׳ע of עָרִיץ כְּגִבּוֺר ׳י, Jer 20:11; plural as substantive עָרִיצִים, in bad sense of formidable adversaries, personal, Jer 15:21 (|| רָעִים), Job 6:23 (|| צָר), and national, Psa 54:5 (|| זָרִים), = ע ׳עֲדַת Psa 86:14 (|| זֵדִים), ע ׳הֲמוֺן Isa 29:5 (|| זָרָ֑יִח); especially of Chaldeans Isa 13:11, construct גוֺיִם עָרִצֵי most terrifying of the nations Eze 28:7 (|| זָרִים) Eze 30:11; Eze 31:12 (|| זָרִים), Eze 32:12; so (probably) singular עָרִיץ Isa 49:25 (read ׳ע also for צַדִּיק Isa 49:24, so Lo Ew Che Gr and others); without specific reference עָרִיצִים גּוֺיִם Isa 25:3 awe-inspiring nations (Du Che take ׳ע as substantive), ע ׳רִוּחַ Isa 25:4 (strike out as gloss Di and others), ע ׳זְמִיר Isa 25:5 (strike out verse as gloss Du Che); late, of wicked in General, as ruthless ע רָשָׁע ׳רָאִיתִי Psa 37:35 I have seen a wicked man ruthless; as substantive, Isa 29:20 (|| לֵץ), Job 15:20 (|| רשׁע), plural Job 27:13 (|| id.), Pro 11:16; read also עָרִיצִ(יםׅ Isa 11:4 (for אֶרֶץ ᵑ0), so Che BrMP Du Gr and others (|| רָשָׁע).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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