עָשִׁיר
ʻâshîyr · H6223 · Hebrew · 23 occurrences
Meanings
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rich person
A person who possesses material wealth
ExamplesExodus 30:15 “The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less, than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַםpeople 1
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
8 occurrences in 8 groups
- הָלַלto praise 1
- חָלָהto be sick, to be weak 1
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
- מָלֵאto be full, to fill 1
- מָשַׁלto rule, to have dominion 1
- עָנָהto answer 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָלַלto curse, to be light 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- אֶחָדone 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 6
- אֵתwith 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוֹןwealth 2
- אָהַבto love 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- πλούσιος ploúsios · G4145 · rich, wealthy, well-to-do
- Greek πλούσιος is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew עָשִׁיר, both denoting wealth or richness in a material or figurative sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Rich002001001050
- עָשִׁיר describes a rich man, one possessing abundant wealth, frequently contrasted with the poor throughout the wisdom literature.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6223. ashir עָשִׁיר23 adjective and noun rich; — absolute ׳ע Exo 30:15 Exo 30:19t.;…
עָשִׁיר23 adjective and
noun rich; — absolute ׳ע Exo 30:15 Exo 30:19t.; plural absolute עֲשִׁירִים Ecc 10:6; construct עֲשִׁירֵי Psa 45:13; suffix עֲשִׁירֶיהָ Mic 6:12; —
adjective masculine 2Sa 12:1, 2Sa 12:4 (opposed to רָאשׁ), Rth 3:10 (opposed to רַּל); usually
noun masculine the rich, opposed to רַּל, Pro 10:15 Pro 10:3t.; opposed to רָשׁ 2Sa 12:2; Pro 14:20 Pro 14:4t.; opposed to אֶבְיוֺן Psa 49:3; alone Jer 9:22; Mic 6:12 Mic 6:5t., + עָם עֲשִׁירֵי Psa 45:13; ׳ע Isa 53:9 is probably corrupt, compare || רְשָׁעִים; Bö Ry Di-Kit רַע עשֵֹׁי; Krochm Gr CheHpt conjecture רְשָׁעִים for ׳ע and מּשְׁעִים for ׳ר.
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
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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