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יָרַשׁ

ya.rashto possess: possessHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb231 occurrences27 books204 verses

Definition

or יָרֵשׁ; a primitive root; 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
Traditional renderings: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, × utterly.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יָרַשׁ:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

231 total
  1. Deuteronomy 5:33תִּֽירָשֽׁוּן׃ · you will possess
    You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
  2. Deuteronomy 6:1לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · and possess
    These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
  3. Deuteronomy 6:18וְיָֽרַשְׁתָּ֙ · and possess
    Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
  4. Deuteronomy 7:1לְרִשְׁתָּ֑הּ · to possess
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  5. Deuteronomy 7:17לְהוֹרִישָֽׁם׃ · we drive them out
    You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
  6. Deuteronomy 8:1וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם · and possess
    You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
  7. Deuteronomy 9:1לָרֶ֣שֶׁת · and dispossess
    Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
  8. Deuteronomy 9:3וְהֽוֹרַשְׁתָּ֤ם · And you will drive them out
    But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
  9. Deuteronomy 9:4לָרֶ֖שֶׁת · to possess; מוֹרִישָׁ֥ם · because of their wickedness
    When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
  10. Deuteronomy 9:5לָרֶ֣שֶׁת · to possess; מוֹרִישָׁ֣ם · is driving out
    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.
  11. Deuteronomy 9:6לְרִשְׁתָּ֑הּ · to possess
    Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  12. Deuteronomy 9:23וּרְשׁ֣וּ · and possess
    And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
  13. Deuteronomy 10:11וְיִֽרְשׁ֣וּ · and possess
    Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
  14. Deuteronomy 11:8וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם · and possess; לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
  15. Deuteronomy 11:10לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ · to possess
    For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
  16. Deuteronomy 11:11לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ · to possess
    But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
  17. Deuteronomy 11:23וְהוֹרִ֧ישׁ · will drive out; וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם · and you will dispossess
    …then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
  18. Deuteronomy 11:29לְרִשְׁתָּ֑הּ · to possess
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  19. Deuteronomy 11:31לָרֶ֣שֶׁת · and possess; וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֥ם · When you take possession
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  20. Deuteronomy 12:1לְרִשְׁתָּ֑הּ · to possess
    These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
  21. Deuteronomy 12:2יֹרְשִׁ֥ים · are dispossessing
    Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  22. Deuteronomy 12:29לָרֶ֥שֶׁת · to dispossess; וְיָרַשְׁתָּ֣ · and you drive them out
    When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
  23. Deuteronomy 15:4לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
  24. Deuteronomy 16:20וְיָרַשְׁתָּ֣ · and you may possess
    Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  25. Deuteronomy 17:14וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֖הּ · and have taken possession of it
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
  26. Deuteronomy 18:12מוֹרִ֥ישׁ · is driving out
    For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
  27. Deuteronomy 18:14יוֹרֵ֣שׁ · will dispossess
    Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
  28. Deuteronomy 19:1וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֕ם · and when you have driven them out
    When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
  29. Deuteronomy 19:2לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    …then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
  30. Deuteronomy 19:14לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ס · to possess
    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.
  31. Deuteronomy 21:1לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ · to possess
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
  32. Deuteronomy 23:20לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ס · to possess
    You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
  33. Deuteronomy 25:19לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ · to possess
    When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
  34. Deuteronomy 26:1וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֖הּ · and you take possession of it
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,
  35. Deuteronomy 28:21לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
  36. Deuteronomy 28:42יְיָרֵ֖שׁ · will consume
    Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
  37. Deuteronomy 28:63לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
  38. Deuteronomy 30:5יָרְשׁ֥וּ · possessed; וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֑הּ · and you will take possession of it
    And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.
  39. Deuteronomy 30:16לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
  40. Deuteronomy 30:18לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ · to possess
    I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  41. Deuteronomy 31:3וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֑ם · and you will dispossess them
    The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
  42. Deuteronomy 31:13לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃פ · to possess
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  43. Deuteronomy 32:47לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃פ · to possess
    For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”