רוּשׁ
rush
“be poor”
Definition
to be destitute
a primitive root;
- to be poor, be in want, lack 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be poor 1a2) to be in want or hunger 1a3) poor man (subst) 1b)(Hithpolel) one impoverishing himself (participle)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
רוּשׁ appears 22 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,but without justice it is swept away.
Better a poor man who walks with integritythan a fool whose lips are perverse.
The rich rule over the poor,and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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