Hebrew adjective · H6184
עָרִיץ
aritsaw-reets'
ruthless
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻârîyts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6184is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6184
fearful, i.e. powerful or tyrannical
The King James renders it: mighty, oppressor, in great power, strong, terrible, violent.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
arits is rendered "ruthless". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 6:23deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
Job 6:23עָרִיצִ֣ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ruthless11
- ruthless of4
- and ruthless2
- a ruthless1
- for the ruthless1
- ruthless person1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָרִיף | ariph | cloud | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עָרִיצִ֖ים3
- עָרִ֖יץ2
- עָרִיצֵ֥י2
- וְֽ֭עָרִיצִים1
- וְ֝עָרִיצִ֗ים1
- לֶעָרִֽיץ׃1
- עָרִ֑יץ1
- עָרִ֔יץ1
- עָרִיצֵ֖י1
- עָרִיצֵ֣י1
- עָ֭רִיצִים1
- עָרִיצִ֣ים1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural9HAampa
- adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HAampc
- adjective · masculine singular4HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural2HC/Aampa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular1HRd/Aamsa
Job
three uses
deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
- עָרִיצִ֣יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
- לֶעָרִֽיץ׃learitzpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the ruthless
This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- עָ֝רִיצִ֗יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
Psalms
three uses
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
- עָרִ֑יץʾaritzadjective · masculine singulartagged: ruthless
For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah
- וְֽ֭עָרִיצִיםvearitzimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and ruthless
The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, with no regard for You.
- עָ֭רִיצִיםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
Proverbs
one use
A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.
- וְ֝עָרִיצִ֗יםvearitzimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and ruthless
Isaiah
seven uses
I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
- עָרִיצִ֖יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
- עָרִיצִ֖יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
- עָרִיצִ֖יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
- עָֽרִיצִ֖יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- עָֽרִיצִ֔יםʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
- עָרִ֖יץʾaritzadjective · masculine singulartagged: ruthless person
Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
- עָרִ֖יץʾaritzadjective · masculine singulartagged: a ruthless
Jeremiah
two uses
I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
- עָרִצִֽים׃ פʾaritzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: ruthless
But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
- עָרִ֔יץʾaritzadjective · masculine singulartagged: ruthless
Ezekiel
four uses
behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
- עָרִיצֵ֖יʾaritzeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruthless of
He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
- עָרִיצֵ֣יʾaritzeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruthless of
Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
- עָרִיצֵ֥יʾaritzeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruthless of
I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.
- עָרִיצֵ֥יʾaritzeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruthless of
The letters
Gematria 370· 1,180 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.