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HebrewH3423Verb

יָרַשׁ

ya.rash

199Occurrences
H3423Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

or יָרֵשׁ; a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
possess/inherit 1) to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to take possession of 1a2) to inherit 1a3) to impoverish, come to poverty, be poor 1b) (Niphal) to be dispossessed, be impoverished, come to poverty 1c) (Piel) to devour 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cause to possess or inherit 1d2) to cause others to possess or inherit 1d3) to impoverish 1d4) to dispossess 1d5) to destroy, bring to ruin, disinherit

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

יָרַשׁ appears 199 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Deuteronomy
62
Joshua
24
Judges
21
Numbers
13
Genesis
9
Isaiah
9
Psalms
7
1 Kings
6

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 28:8BSB

So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 19:14BSB

You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 9:5BSB

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Judges 1:30BSB

Zebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers.

Joshua 23:5BSB

The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.