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Word Study · Strong's H3423 · Hebrew

יָרַשׁ

yarash

yaw-rash'

Strong's 1890 spelling: yârash

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, [idiom] without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) [phrase] magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, [idiom] utterly.

  • 231
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 27 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 166
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 231 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 166

  • לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃13
  • לָרֶ֣שֶׁת10
  • הוֹרִ֣ישׁ6
  • לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ6
  • וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם5
  • לְרִשְׁתָּ֑הּ5
  • לָרֶ֥שֶׁת4
  • לָרֶ֖שֶׁת4
  • הוֹרִישׁ֙3
  • הוֹרִישֽׁוֹ׃ ס3
  • יוֹרֵ֣שׁ3
  • יִֽירְשׁוּ־3

and 154 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 110

  • to take possession of it31
  • to take possession of17
  • and they took possession of11
  • and you will take possession of11
  • and they will take possession of7
  • they will possess6
  • to dispossess5
  • and they will take possession of it4
  • he had dispossessed4
  • it dispossessed4
  • and certainly to dispossess3
  • and he dispossessed3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 85

  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular29
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)19
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular14
  • Hc/Vqw3mp11
  • Hc/Vqq2mp8
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural8
  • Hc/Vqq3cp7
  • Hc/Vhw3ms6
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)5
  • Hc/Vhq2mp4
  • Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fs4
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Vqcc/Sp3fs · 29
  • HR/Vqcc · 19
  • HVhp3ms · 14
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 11
  • Hc/Vqq2mp · 8
  • HVqi3mp · 8
  • Hc/Vqq3cp · 7
  • Hc/Vhw3ms · 6
  • HR/Vhcc · 5
  • Hc/Vhq2mp · 4
  • Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fs · 4
  • HVqrmsa · 4

All 231, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Deuteronomy carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis10 occurrences
Exodus2 occurrences
Leviticus3 occurrences
Numbers15 occurrences
Deuteronomy71 occurrences
Joshua29 occurrences
Judges27 occurrences
1 Samuel1 occurrence
2 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Kings6 occurrences
2 Kings4 occurrences
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah5 occurrences
Job2 occurrences
Psalms11 occurrences
Proverbs4 occurrences
Isaiah10 occurrences
Jeremiah7 occurrences
Ezekiel6 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos2 occurrences
Obadiah4 occurrences
Micah1 occurrence
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).