אֹשׁ
ʼôsh · H787 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Thing
- FoundationHouse, permanent dwelling20 verses
Meanings
-
foundation, base
The bottom part of a construction, which bears everything built on top of it
ExamplesEzra 4:12 let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are rebuilding the rebellious and evil city and are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.
Ezra 5:16 ‘Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not yet completed.’
Ezra 6:3 “In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: ‘Concerning the house of God in Jerusalem, let the temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt, and let its foundations be repaired, its height being sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,
How it’s used In 4 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סְבַלstrongly laid 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חוּטjoin 1
- יְהַבdeliver 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.
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.
Near synonyms 2 words
- יְסוֹד yᵉçôwd · H3247 · foundation, base, established
- Common Hebrew noun for foundation; more frequently attested than אֹשׁ and used in similar architectural and metaphorical contexts for the base or foundation of buildings and structures
- מוֹסָד môwçâd · H4144 · base, foundation
- Hebrew noun denoting foundation, particularly of buildings and cities; closely overlapping semantic range with אֹשׁ in architectural contexts
In the other Testament 1 word
- θεμέλιος themélios · G2310 · foundation, foundation stone
- Greek noun for foundation, used in both literal architectural sense and metaphorical sense; standard translation equivalent for Hebrew foundation terminology in LXX
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Constructions001003002
- Ezra 4:12 has the letter to King Artaxerxes report, “the Jews who came up from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are rebuilding the rebellious and evil city and are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H787. osh [אשׁ K§ 55, 5 c] noun masculineEzr 6:3 foundation (probably loan-word from…
[אשׁ K§ 55, 5 c] noun masculineEzr 6:3 foundation (probably loan-word from Assyrian uššû, id., √ אשׁשׁ (see Biblical Hebrew), so ZimKAT 3. 649; ᵑ7 feminine אוּשָׁא, Late Hebrew אוּשָׁה, Christian- Palestinian Aramaic , , SchulthLex. 19; Arabic : NöM 99); — plural emphatic אֻשַּׁיָּא Ezr 4:12; Ezr 5:16; suffix אֻשֹּׁהִי Ezr 6:3.
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
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.