rush · be poor

What it means

rush (רוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be poor”.

Lack possessions.

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 be poor, or become poor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• poor ×23
• destitute ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×16
• Ecclesiastes×2

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  The servants of Saul spoke in the ears of David these words, and David said, “Is it a light thing in your eyes to become son-in-law to the king, when I am a poor and despised man?”

• 2 Samuel 12:1

  YHWH sent Nathan to David; he came to him and said to him, “There were two men in one city, one rich and one poor.

• 2 Samuel 12:3

  but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb that he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up with him and with his sons together; from his morsel it would eat, and from his cup it would drink, and in his bosom it would lie; and it was to him like a daughter.

• 2 Samuel 12:4

  A traveler came to the rich man, and he was loath to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him; so he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

• Psalms 34:10

  Young lions grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek YHWH will not lack any good thing.

• Psalms 82:3

  Judge the poor and the orphan; do justice to the afflicted and the destitute.

• Proverbs 10:4

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

• 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 13:8

  The ransom of the soul of a man is his riches, but the poor does not hear a threat.

• Proverbs 13:23

  Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but there is one who is swept away for lack of justice.

• Proverbs 14:20

  Even by his neighbor the poor is hated, but many are those who love the rich.

• Proverbs 17:5

  Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

• Proverbs 18:23

  The poor speaks pleas for mercy, but the rich answers harshly.

• Proverbs 19:1

  Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one crooked in his lips, who is senseless.

• Proverbs 19:7

  All the brothers of a poor man hate him; how much more do his companions go far from him! He pursues words; they are not there.

• Proverbs 19:22

  What is desirable in a man is his loyal love, and better is a poor man than a man who lies.

• Proverbs 22:2

  The rich and the poor meet together; the Maker of them all is YHWH.

• Proverbs 22:7

  The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the man who lends.

• Proverbs 28:3

  A poor man who oppresses the poor is a rain that sweeps away, and there is no bread.

• Proverbs 28:6

  Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one crooked in two ways, even though he is rich.

• Proverbs 28:27

  Whoever gives to the poor will have no want, but whoever hides his eyes will have many curses.

• Proverbs 29:13

  The poor man and the man of oppressions meet; YHWH gives light to the eyes of both.

• Ecclesiastes 4:14

  For from the house of the prisoners he came out to reign, though also in his kingdom he was born poor.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If you see the oppression of the poor and the robbing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the matter, for a high one watches over a high one, and higher ones over them.