ashar · make rich, become rich

What it means

ashar (עָשַׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make rich, become rich”.

Make rich; grow rich.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To acquire much wealth, or give it to another.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• makes rich ×3
• I have become rich ×2
• get rich ×2
• grow rich ×2
• grown rich ×1
• grows rich ×1
• made Abram rich ×1
• one who makes himself rich ×1
• will enrich him ×1
• will gain ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×6
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 14:23

  that I will not take a thread or even a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you will not say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  YHWH makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, and also lifts up.

• 1 Samuel 17:25

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely to reproach Israel he comes up. And it will be that the man who strikes him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make the house of his father free in Israel.”

• Job 15:29

  He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possession will not spread over the land.

• Psalms 49:16

  Do not fear when a man grows rich, when the glory of his house increases;

• Psalms 65:9

  You have visited the land and watered it; greatly you enrich it. The stream of Elohim is full of water; you prepare their grain, for so you prepare it.

• Proverbs 10:4

  A slack palm makes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

• Proverbs 10:22

  The blessing of YHWH, it makes rich, and it does not add weariness with it.

• Proverbs 13:7

  There is one who makes himself rich, and has nothing at all; one who makes himself poor, and has great wealth.

• Proverbs 21:17

  A man of want is whoever loves joy; whoever loves wine and oil will not grow rich.

• Proverbs 23:4

  Do not wear yourself out to get rich; from your own understanding desist.

• Proverbs 28:20

  A man of faithfulness is rich in blessings, but whoever hurries to get rich will not go unpunished.

• Jeremiah 5:27

  Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

• Ezekiel 27:33

  When your wares went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your riches and your exchange you enriched the kings of the earth.

• Daniel 11:2

  And now I will declare to you truth. Look, three more kings will stand up in Persia, and the fourth will gain great riches more than all; and when he is strong through his riches, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Javan.

• Hosea 12:8

  And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they will not find in me iniquity that is sin.”

• Zechariah 11:5

  whose buyers kill them and are not held guilty; and their sellers say, ‘Blessed be YHWH, and I have become rich’; and their shepherds do not have compassion on them.