Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H787
אֹשׁ
oshohsh
foundation
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼôsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H787is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H787
a foundation
The King James renders it: foundation.
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
osh is rendered "foundation". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:12Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem. And they are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city, restoring its walls, and repairing its foundations.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem. And they are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city, restoring its walls, and repairing its foundations.
Ezra 4:12וְאֻשַּׁיָּ֖א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and foundations its1
- and foundations the1
- foundations the1
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- אֻשַּׁיָּ֛א1
- וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִי1
- וְאֻשַּׁיָּ֖א1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/Ncmpd/Ta
- noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1ANcmpd/Ta
Ezra
three uses
Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem. And they are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city, restoring its walls, and repairing its foundations.
- וְאֻשַּׁיָּ֖אveushaiya'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and foundations the
So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been under construction, but it has not yet been completed.”
- אֻשַּׁיָּ֛אʾushaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: foundations the
In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
- וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִיveushohiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and foundations its
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.