Word

רֵישׁ

rêysh · H7389 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

poverty

State in which humans lack sufficient means to live at a standard that is considered normal; sometimes associated with laziness or foolishness, but ultimately determined by God

Examples
Proverbs 6:11 Then your poverty will come in like a drifter, And your need like an armed man.
Proverbs 10:15 The rich person’s wealth is his fortress, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame will come to one who neglects discipline, But one who complies with rebuke will be honored.

How it’s used In 5 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 3 groups

ךָyour 2
הוּhis 1
הֶםtheir 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 2

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
שָׂבַעto be satiated 1
שָׁכַחto forget 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּרַעto let hang loose 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מְחִתָּהruin 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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Near synonyms 2 words

חֹסֶר chôçer · H2640 · lack: Both lexemes denote states of lacking or not having possessions and genuinely overlap in sense as near-synonyms describing deprivation or need.
חֶסֶר cheçer · H2639 · lack, want, shortage: Both words denote the state of poverty and want; they are two distinct Hebrew words for the same concept of poverty.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Non-Possess002003002018: Proverbs 6:11, 10:15, 13:18, 24:34, and 28:19 all use this noun of "poverty" coming like a robber or resulting from laziness, richly and directly attesting the sense of lacking material possessions.

Word family 2 words

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

רוּשׁ rûwsh · H7326 · to suffer want, poor, destitute · 24×רֵישׁrêysh · H7389

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7389. resh or rish רֵאשׁ רֵישׁ, רִישׁ, noun masculine poverty, only Proverbs; — רִישׁ…

H7389. resh
or rish רֵאשׁ רֵישׁ, רִישׁ,
noun masculine poverty, only Proverbs; — רִישׁ Mal 28:19, suffix רִישׁוֺ Mal 31:7; רֵישׁ Mal 13:18, suffix רֵישֶׁ֑ךָ Mal 24:34 (|| מַחְסֹרֶיךָ), רֵישָׁם Mal 10:15 (opposed to עָשִׁיר); רֵאשׁ Mal 30:8 (opposed to עשֶׁר), suffix רֵאשֶׁ֑ךָ Mal 6:11 (= Mal 24:34, || id.).
רוּת
proper name, feminine see below רעה.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Possess7 occurrences

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