יָרַשׁ
to inherit
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘take possession of’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to possess’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H3423 appears in the Book of Deuteronomy — 63 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 1:8 וּ/רְשׁ֣וּ conj + Qal impv 2mp Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
- Deuteronomy 1:21 רֵ֗שׁ Qal impv 2ms Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
- Deuteronomy 1:39 יִירָשֽׁוּ/הָּ Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 3fs Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- Deuteronomy 2:12 יִֽירָשׁ֗וּ/ם Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 3mp The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Deuteronomy 2:21 וַ/יִּירָשֻׁ֖/ם conj + Qal wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3mp a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
- Deuteronomy 2:22 וַ/יִּֽירָשֻׁ/ם֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3mp as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
- Deuteronomy 2:24 רָ֑שׁ Qal impv 2ms Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Deuteronomy 2:31 רָ֔שׁ לָ/רֶ֖שֶׁת Qal impv 2ms prep + Qal inf.cs Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
- Deuteronomy 3:12 יָרַ֖שְׁנוּ Qal pf 1cp This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Deuteronomy 3:18 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֔/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
- Deuteronomy 3:20 וְ/יָרְשׁ֣וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:22 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתֶּ֕ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
- Deuteronomy 4:26 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֑/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 4:38 לְ/הוֹרִ֗ישׁ prep + Hiphil inf.cs to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 4:47 וַ/יִּֽירְשׁ֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
- Deuteronomy 5:31 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 תִּֽירָשֽׁוּ/ן Qal impf 2mp + sfx n You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 6:18 וְ/יָֽרַשְׁתָּ֙ conj + Qal wpf 2ms You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 7:1 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֑/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- Deuteronomy 7:17 לְ/הוֹרִישָֽׁ/ם prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
- Deuteronomy 8:1 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 9:1 לָ/רֶ֣שֶׁת prep + Qal inf.cs Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
- Deuteronomy 9:3 וְ/הֽוֹרַשְׁתָּ֤/ם conj + Hiphil wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3mp Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 לָ/רֶ֖שֶׁת מוֹרִישָׁ֥/ם prep + Qal inf.cs Hiphil ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 9:5 לָ/רֶ֣שֶׁת מוֹרִישָׁ֣/ם prep + Qal inf.cs Hiphil ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:6 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֑/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 וּ/רְשׁ֣וּ conj + Qal impv 2mp When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 10:11 וְ/יִֽרְשׁ֣וּ conj + Qal juss 3mp Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
- Deuteronomy 11:8 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ conj + Qal wpf 2mp prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 11:10 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֔/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 11:11 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֔/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,
- Deuteronomy 11:23 וְ/הוֹרִ֧ישׁ וִֽ/ירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם conj + Hiphil wpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2mp then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- Deuteronomy 11:29 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֑/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- Deuteronomy 11:31 לָ/רֶ֣שֶׁת וִֽ/ירִשְׁתֶּ֥ם prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wpf 2mp For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
- Deuteronomy 12:1 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֑/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
- Deuteronomy 12:2 יֹרְשִׁ֥ים Qal ptcp.act mp You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
- Deuteronomy 12:29 לָ/רֶ֥שֶׁת וְ/יָרַשְׁתָּ֣ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wpf 2ms When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
- Deuteronomy 15:4 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
- Deuteronomy 16:20 וְ/יָרַשְׁתָּ֣ conj + Qal wpf 2ms That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 17:14 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתָּ֖/הּ conj + Qal wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3fs When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;
- Deuteronomy 18:12 מוֹרִ֥ישׁ Hiphil ptcp.act ms For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 18:14 יוֹרֵ֣שׁ Qal ptcp.act ms For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
- Deuteronomy 19:1 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתָּ֕/ם conj + Qal wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3mp When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
- Deuteronomy 19:2 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 19:14 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 21:1 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֔/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;
- Deuteronomy 23:20 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 25:19 לְ/רִשְׁתָּ֔/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
- Deuteronomy 26:1 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתָּ֖/הּ conj + Qal wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3fs It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
- Deuteronomy 28:21 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 יְיָרֵ֖שׁ Piel impf 3ms All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:5 יָרְשׁ֥וּ וִֽ/ירִשְׁתָּ֑/הּ Qal pf 3cp conj + Qal wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3fs and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:18 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 31:3 וִֽ/ירִשְׁתָּ֑/ם conj + Qal wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 31:13 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 32:47 לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 33:23 יְרָֽשָׁ/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, Full with the blessing of Yahweh, Possess you the west and the south.
About this entry
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The Hebrew verb ירש centers on the idea of “to inherit.” Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 4 stems, among them Qal and Niphal. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 204 verses — common. Deuteronomy dominates its distribution — 63 of 204 verses. First canonically at Genesis 15:3, it enters the text early. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3423 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 204
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 204 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #205
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 205 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 204 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 63 verses 31%
- Joshua 24 verses 12%
- Judges 21 verses 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 204 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 89 verses · 44%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 86 verses · 42%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 29 verses · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Possess 53×, Drive out 12×, Possessed 9×
- American Standard Version: Possess 32×, Possess it 13×, Possessed 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Possess 47×, Drive out 15×, Take possession of 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Possess 33×, Possess it 29×, Dispossess 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3423 across 232 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 87 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3423 across 231 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 89 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3423 across 230 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 85 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3423 across 265 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 77 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
16 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 16 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. יָרַשׁ Je 49:1; וְיָרַשׁ consec. Je 49:2 Nu 27:11; 2 ms. יָרָ֑שְׁתָּ 1 K 21:19; וְיָרַשְׁתָּ֫ Dt 6:18 + 2 times; sf. וִירִשְׁתָּהּ consec. Dt 17:14 + 2 times (on this and kindred forms v. Köi. 406, 411); וִירִשְׁתָּם consec. Dt 19:1; 31:3; 3 pl. יָֽרְשׁוּ Dt 3:20 +; sf. וִירֵשׁוּךָ consec. Ez 36:12 (Köl.c.); וִירֵשׁוּהָ consec. Is 34:11 + 3 times; 2 mpl. וִירִשְׁתֶּם consec. Dt 4:1 + 7 times; 1 pl. יָרַשְׁנוּ Dt 3:12, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִירַשׁ Gn 21:10 ψ 25:13; 2 mpl. תִּירְשׁוּ Lv 20:24 1 Ch 28:8; תִּירָ֑שׁוּ Ez 33:25, 26; תִּירָשׁ֑וּן Dt 5:30, etc.; Imv. ms. יְרָ֑שָׁה Dt 33:23; רֵשׁ Dt 1:21 1 K 21:15; רָ֑שׁ Dt 2:24, 31; mpl. וּרְשׁוּ Dt 1:8; 9:23; Inf. cstr. לָרֶ֫שֶׁת Dt 2:31 + 17 times; לָרָ֑שֶׁת Ne 9:23; sf. לְרִשְׁתְּךָ Gn 28:4; לְרִשְׁתּוֹ 1 K 21:16, 18; לְרִשְׁתָּהּ Gn 15:7 + 28 times; Pt. יוֹרֵשׁ Gn 15:3 + 6 times; pl. י(וֹ)רְשִׁים Dt 12:2 Je 8:10; sf. יֹרְשָׁיו Je 49:2;— e.g. Jeremiah 49:1
- 1. take possession of, especially by force, have as a possession, often with collat. idea of taking in place of others, succeeding to, inheriting (cf. 2:
- a. land, sq. acc. Gn 15:7, 8 Nu 13:30; 21:24, 35 Jos 18:3 (all JE), 24:4, 8 (E), Ju 2:6; 11:21, 22, 23, 24(×2); 18:9 Dt 1:8, 21, 39 + 25 times Dt, + †Dt 11:31; 17:14; 26:1 (all possess land and dwell therein), similarly Is 65:9(×2) ψ 69:36; בְּאַרְצָם מִשְׁנֶה יִירָ֑שׁוּ Is 61:7 in their land they shall possess the double; הָחֵל רָשׁ Dt 2:24; הָחֵל רָשׁ לָרֶשֶׁת אֶת־אַרְצוֹ v 31; especially phr. (הארץ) שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ (etc. עֹבְרִים) אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם בָּאִים Dt 4:5, 14, 26 + 12 times Dt, also Ezr 9:10; v. Dt 30:18 Jos 1:11(×2), 15(×2); 12:1; 13:1; 21:41; 23:5 (all D); Am 2:10 Ob 19, 19 Hb 1:6 Ez 33:24, 25, 26 Lv 20:24(×2) (H), Gn 28:4 Nu 33:53 (both P), 1 Ch 28:8 Ne 9:15, 22, 23, 24; ψ 25:13; 37:9, 11, 22, 29, 34; + ב instr. 44:4; also וַעֲמַל לְאֻמִּים יִירָ֑שׁוּ 105:44 (‖ (וִיִּתֵּן לָהֶם אַרְצוֹת גּוֹיִם); †take possession of fields Je 8:10 (obj. not expr.), 1 K 21:15, 16, 18, 19 ψ 83:13; inheritance (in land) Nu 27:11; 36:8(×2) (all P); city (cities), Jos 19:47 (JE), Ju 3:13 Ob 20; so הַר־קָדְשִׁי Is 57:13 (‖ נחל ארץ), 63:18 where read prob. הַר־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ (for MT עַם־ק׳, see 𝔊 VB and ‖ cl.); possess city and dwell therein 2 K 17:24 Is 34:17; Is 34:11 yea the pelican and bittern shall possess it; so of nettles Ho 9:6; וְיִרַשׁ זַרְעֲךָ אֵת שַׁעַר אֹיְבָיו Gn 22:17, cf. 24:60 (both J); possess houses Ez 7:24 (del. Co), Ne 9:25; יוֹרֵשׁ עֶצֶר Ju 18:7 possessing wealth (? see VB)†. e.g. Genesis 15:7
- b. a people (with collat. idea of being their heir (2), and so dispossessing them), so especially in Dt 2:12, 21, 22; 9:1 (+ cities), 11:23; 12:2, 29(×2); 18:14; 19:1; 31:3; Nu 21:32 (Kt וַיִּירַשׁ; JE), Am 9:12; מַדּוּעַ יָרַשׁ מִלְכֹּם אֶת־גָּ֑ד Je 49:1 (on text see VB), v 2, 2 (in these 3 perhaps play on meaning inherit, cf. v 1 a); Ez 36:12 Ob 17 Is 54:3; nations + countries Ez 35:10. e.g. Deuteronomy 2:12
- 2. inherit, sq. acc. pers. = be one’s heir Gn 15:3, 4(×2) (JE); שִׁפְחָה כִּי־תִירַשׁ גְּבִרְתָּהּ Pr 30:23 (or, dispossess?); abs. be heir, sq. עִם pers. = jointly with 21:10 (E); (הַ)יּוֹרֵשׁ (the) heir 2 S 14:7 Je 49:1 (‖ בָּנִים); Mi 1:15 (= possessor, captor), where paronom. with n.pr.loc. מָרֵשָׁה; inherit persons, as slaves לָרֶשֶׁת אֲחֻזָּה Lv 25:46 (H). e.g. Genesis 15:3
- 3. = impoverish, הַלְיָרְשֵׁנוּ קְרָאתֶם (var. Pi. הַלְיָֽרְ׳ Ju 14:15 (v. Ges§ 69 m)) to impoverish us did ye call (us)? e.g. Judges 14:15
Niphal
- Impf. יִוָּרֵשׁ Pr 23:21; 2 ms. תִּוָּרֵשׁ Gn 45:11 Pr 20:13; אִוָּרֵשׁ Pr 30:9;—be (dispossessed =) impoverished, come to poverty Gn 45:11 (E), Pr 20:13; 23:21; 30:9 (opp. אֶשְׂבַּע). e.g. Proverbs 23:21
Piel
- Impf. פְּרִי אַדְמָתֶ֑ךָ יְיָרֵשׁ הַצְּלָצַֽל Dt 28:42 the fruit of thy ground shall the cricket get full possession of (cf. Qal Ho 9:6 Is 34:11), i.e. devour. e.g. Deuteronomy 28:42
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הוֹרִישׁ Ju 1:27 +; 2 ms. הוֹרַשְׁתָּ 2 Ch 20:7 ψ 44:3, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יוֹרִישׁ Jos 3:10; וַיּ֫(וֹ)רֶשׁ Ju 1:19 +; 3 fs. sf. 3 mpl. תּוֹרִישֵׁמוּ Ex 15:9, etc.; Inf. abs. הוֹרֵשׁ Jos 3:10; 17:13; הוֹרֵישׁ Ju 1:28; cstr. לְהוֹרִישׁ Dt 4:38 +, etc.; Pt. מוֹרִישׁ 1 S 2:7 Dt 18:12; sf. מוֹרִישָׁם Dt 9:4, 5;— e.g. Judges 1:27
- 1. cause to possess, or inherit Ju 11:24; מִיְּרֻשָֽׁתְךָ אֲשֶׁר הוֹרַשְׁתָּנוּ 2 Ch 20:11; sq. ל pers., וְהוֹרַשְׁתֶּם לִבְנֵיכֶם Ezr 9:12 and cause your sons to inherit (it); fig. תּוֹרִישֵׁנִי עֲוֹנוֹת נְעוּרָ֑י Jb 13:26 thou makest me to inherit (the consequences of) the iniquities of my youth. e.g. Judges 11:24
- 2. cause (others) to possess or inherit, then gen. dispossess:
- a. sq. acc. gent. vel pers., Jos 13:13; 16:10 (both JE), Ju 1:29, 30, 31, 32, 33 (all opp. ישׁב בְּקֶרֶב), Jos 14:12 (JE), 17:13 (JE; הוֹרֵשׁ לֹא הוֹרִישׁוֹ), Ju 1:28 (id.); opp. ישׁב אֵת Jos 15:63; opp. ישׁב בְּ Ju 1:21, 27; also Nu 21:32 Qr, 32:39 Jos 17:18 (all JE), 13:12 (D), Ju 1:19b; 2:23; also וַיֹּרֶשׁ אֶת־הָהָר 1:19a (= את־יושׁבי ההר see v b), Dt 7:17 ψ 44:3; וְהוֹרַשְׁתָּם וְהַאֲבַדְתָּם Dt 9:3; sq. acc. + מִפְּנֵי Ex 34:24 Nu 32:21 Jos 3:10 (הוֹרֵשׁ יוֹרִישׁ; all these JE), Dt 4:38; 9:4, 5; 18:12 Jos 13:6; 23:9 (both D), Nu 33:52, 55 (both P), Ju 2:21; 11:23, 24 1 K 14:24; 21:26 2 K 16:3; 17:8; 21:2 (all D), 2 Ch 28:3; 33:2; acc. + מִלִּפְנֵי Dt 11:23 Jos 23:5, 13 (D; ‖ הָדַף), 2 Ch 20:7; acc. + מִשָּׁם Jos 15:14 (JE) = Ju 1:20; of cities (i.e. their inhabitants) Jos 8:7; 17:12; so of a land = Nu 33:53 (P), see v 52, 55 [𝔊 + יושׁבי] e.g. Joshua 13:13
- b. sq. acc. rei, מִבִּטְנוֹ יֹרִשֶׁנּוּ אֵל Jb 20:15 God shall cast them out of his belly, i.e. riches (‖ חַיִל בָּלַע וַיְקִאֶנּוּ). e.g. Job 20:15
- 3. = impoverish, יהוה מוֹרִישׁ וּמַעֲשׁיר 1 S 2:7 (song) י׳ impoverisheth and maketh rich; sq. acc. (of Tyre) אֲדֹנָי יוֹרִשֶׁנָּה Zc 9:4 (see v 3). e.g. 1 Samuel 2:7
- 4. nearly = bring to ruin, destroy, sq. acc. gent. אָרִיק חַרְבִּי תּוֹרִישֵׁמוֹ יָדִי Ex 15:9 (poem in E); so perhaps also Nu 14:12 (JE; AV disinherit; ‖ אַכֶּנּוּ בַדֶּבֶר). e.g. Exodus 15:9
- 5. = Qal take possession of a land Nu 14:24 (JE), but read prob. יִרָשֶׁנָּה. e.g. Numbers 14:24
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. take possession of, inherit, dispossess (MI7 וירש take possession of; Aramaic יְרֵית, ܝܺܪܶܬ take possession of, and be heir to, inherit; so Ethiopic ወረሰ Arabic وَرِثَ inherit; v. also Sab. ורתֿ, inherit, CISiv, 37, 3), especially D (62 times Qal, 1 times Pi, 7 times Hiph. in Dt + 13 times D in Jos);—
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Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָרַשׁ
- (b. h.) [to enter into, take the place of,] to conquer; to take possession, to succeed, inherit. Gen. R. s. 11, end י׳ את העולם במדה had his worldly share assigned to him with limitation. Gen. R. s. 44 ליוֹרְשֵׁנִי to be my heir. B. Bath. VIII, 5 איש … לא יִירַשׁ וכ׳ this man, my son, shall not be an heir with the rest of his brothers. Ib. בתי תִירָֹשֵנִי my daughter shall be my heiress. Ib. ראוי ליוֹרְשׁוֹ entitled to succeed him. Ib. IX, 1 (139ᵇ) הבנים יִירְשׁוּ (Bab. ed. יֵרְשׁוּ) the sons take possession of the estate; a. fr.—V. יוֹרֵשׁ.
- 1. to cause to inherit, to leave by will or by the law of succession; to transmit. Ib. 119ᵇ מוֹרִישִׁין ואינן יורשין they shall leave (the Holy Land to their children) but shall not take possession themselves. Shebu. 47ᵃ אין אדם מוֹרִישׁ שבועה לבניו a man cannot transmit an oath to his sons, i.e. property to be obtained only by the claimant’s oath cannot be claimed by his heirs. Keth. 43ᵃ; Kidd. 16ᵇ אין אדם מוריש זכות בתו וכ׳ a man cannot bequeathe his daughter’s privileges to his sons. B. Bath. IX, 8 if the house fell עליו ועל מוֹרִישָׁיו over himself (the heir) and his ancestors; a. fr.
- 2. to drive out, dispossess. Sifré Deut. 51 סמוך … לא הוֹרַשְׁתָּ (the Jebusite) who is near thy palace thou hast not driven out; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 163 distinct written forms H3423 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 103 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3423, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- ירשה yᵉrêshâh H3424 possession
- ירשה yᵉrushshâh H3425 inheritance
- מורש môwrâsh H4180 possession
- רשת resheth H7568 net
- תירוש tîyrôwsh H8492 wine
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 193 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 204 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 15:3
- Exodus 15:9
- Leviticus 20:24
- Numbers 13:30
- Deuteronomy 1:8
- Joshua 1:11
- Judges 1:19
- 1 Samuel 2:7
- 2 Samuel 14:7
- 1 Kings 21:15
- 2 Kings 16:3
- 1 Chronicles 28:8
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
