עֹשֶׁר osher

Hebrew word for “riches” · Strong’s H6239 · used 37 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

wealth, riches

How it is translated

Glosses given for osher in context, with how often each is used:

• wealth 31
• riches 5
• more than wealth 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ecclesiastes 5 (3), 1 Kings 3 (2), 1 Chronicles 29 (2), 2 Chronicles 1 (2), Proverbs 11 (2), Proverbs 22 (2), Genesis 31 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1), 2 Chronicles 9 (1)

Forms

• עשׁר 20
• ועשׁר 3
• עשׁרו 3
• בעשׁרו 3
• העשׁר 2
• לעשׁר 2
• עשׁרם 2
• והעשׁר 1
• מעשׁר 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with osher more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כָּבוֹד kavod “glory” 15
• נֶכֶס nekhes “wealth” 4
• רֹב rov “abundance” 5
• חׇכְמָה chokhmah “wisdom” 5
• גָּדַל gadal “to magnify” 4
• שְׁלֹמֹה shelomoh “Solomon” 4
• גַּם gam “also” 5
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 5
• חֵן chen “favor” 3
• מַדָּע madda “knowledge” 2
• שָׁלַט shalat “to domineer” 2
• עִנְיָן inyan “task” 2

Key verses

The verses using osher that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 29:12 — Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give…
• Esther 5:11 — And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had…
• Psalms 49:6 — They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
• Psalms 52:7 — Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
• Proverbs 3:16 — Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
• Proverbs 8:18 — Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
• Proverbs 30:8 — Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
• Ecclesiastes 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with…
• Ecclesiastes 5:13 — There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
• Ecclesiastes 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of…
• Jeremiah 9:23 — Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
• Jeremiah 17:11 — As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.