רָכַשׁ
râkash · H7408 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to acquire
Process by which humans acquire possessions, such as livestock, and material goods
ExamplesGenesis 12:5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:18 and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he possessed which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
Genesis 36:6 Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all his household, and his livestock and all his cattle, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- Not stated: they 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 2
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
- περιποιέομαι peripoiéomai · G4046 · to acquire, to achieve, to win
- Greek περιποιέομαι emphasizes the act of acquisition or obtaining for oneself (etymologically 'making around oneself'), while Hebrew רָכַשׁ focuses on the gathering or getting of possessions, both converging on the semantic domain of acquisition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Possess002003002019
- Genesis 12:5 describes "possessions which they had accumulated," and 31:18, 36:6, and 46:6 repeatedly describe livestock and property "acquired," richly and directly attesting the sense of gaining possessions.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7408. rakash רָכַשׁ verb collect, gather property, verb only P (rare) (Mandean דכש…
רָכַשׁ verb collect, gather property, verb only P (rare) (Mandean דכש gather, NorbergLexid.231; Assyrian rukûšu, property (HptHebraica iii. 110 riding animal); Aramaic רִכְשָׁא, = Biblical Hebrew רֶכֶשׁ); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ר, accusative קִנְיָן, Gen 31:18b Gen 36:6; else where with accusative of congnate meaning with verb רְכוּשׁ: רָכָ֑שׁ אָשֶׁר Gen 31:18a, 3plural רָֽכְשׁוּ Gen 46:6, דָכָ֑שׁוּ Gen 12:5.
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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