rechush · possessions

What it means

rechush (רְכוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “possessions”.

Goods, possessions, property.

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. What someone has amassed: belongings, livestock.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• goods ×12
• possessions ×11
• property ×3
• equipment ×1
• wealth ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Numbers×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×4
• Daniel×3

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 13:6

  But the land could not support them living together, for their possessions were great, and they could not live together.

• Genesis 14:11

  They took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and went away.

• Genesis 14:12

  They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, and his possessions, and went away; for he was living in Sodom.

• Genesis 14:16

  He brought back all the possessions, and also Lot his brother and his possessions he brought back, and also the women and the people.

• Genesis 14:21

  The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, and take the possessions for yourself.”

• Genesis 15:14

  But also the nation that they serve I will judge, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

• Genesis 31:18

  He drove off all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 36:7

  For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they resided as aliens could not support them because of their livestock.

• Genesis 46:6

  They took their livestock and their goods that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him;

• Numbers 16:32

  And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all the goods.

• Numbers 35:3

  The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their beasts and for their goods and for all their animals.

• 1 Chronicles 27:31

  and over the sheep was Jaziz the Hagrite. All these were the chiefs of the property that belonged to King David.

• 1 Chronicles 28:1

  David assembled at Jerusalem all the chiefs of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions who ministered to the king, and the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, and the chiefs over all the property and livestock of the king and of his sons, with the officials and the mighty men and every mighty man of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 20:25

  Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder their spoil, and they found among them in abundance goods and corpses and precious objects, and they stripped them for themselves until they could carry no more; and they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much.

• 2 Chronicles 21:14

  look, YHWH is going to strike with a great plague your people, your sons, your wives, and all your goods;

• 2 Chronicles 21:17

  They came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away captive all the goods that were found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives; and there was not left to him a son except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

• 2 Chronicles 31:3

  The portion of the king from his possessions was for the burnt offerings: for the burnt offerings of the morning and of the evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and for the new moons and for the appointed times, as it is written in the law of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 32:29

  He made cities for himself, and livestock of flocks and herds in abundance, for Elohim had given him very great wealth.

• 2 Chronicles 35:7

  Josiah contributed to the sons of the people flock animals, lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle; these were from the possessions of the king.

• Ezra 1:4

  And everyone who remains, in any of the places where he resides as an alien, let the men of his place support him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with livestock, besides the freewill offering for the house of Elohim which is in Jerusalem.’”

• Ezra 1:6

  And all those around them strengthened their hands with utensils of silver, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with precious things, besides all that was freely offered.

• Ezra 8:21

  And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our Elohim, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our goods.

• Ezra 10:8

  and that everyone who did not come within three days, according to the counsel of the officials and the elders, all his goods would be devoted to destruction, and he himself would be separated from the assembly of the exiles.

• Daniel 11:13

  And the king of the north will return and raise a multitude greater than the first; and at the end of the times, after years, he will come surely with a great army and with much equipment.

• Daniel 11:24

  In a time of ease, and into the richest parts of the province, he will come, and he will do what his fathers did not do, nor the fathers of his fathers: plunder and spoil and goods he will scatter among them, and against fortified places he will devise his plans, but only until a time.

• Daniel 11:28

  And he will return to his land with great goods, and his heart will be against the holy covenant; and he will act and return to his land.

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