רְכוּשׁ
property
also: goods, possessions fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7399 appears in the Book of Genesis — 10 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.
Genesis
- Genesis 12:5 רְכוּשָׁ/ם֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
- Genesis 13:6 רְכוּשָׁ/ם֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
- Genesis 14:11 רְכֻ֨שׁ n c ms cs They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
- Genesis 14:12 רְכֻשׁ֛/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
- Genesis 14:16 הָ/רְכֻ֑שׁ וּ/רְכֻשׁ/וֹ֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
- Genesis 14:21 וְ/הָ/רְכֻ֖שׁ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
- Genesis 15:14 בִּ/רְכֻ֥שׁ prep + n c ms I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
- Genesis 31:18 רְכֻשׁ/וֹ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 36:7 רְכוּשָׁ֛/ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their cattle.
- Genesis 46:6 רְכוּשָׁ/ם֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp They took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt-- Jacob, and all his seed with him,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
רכוש (rᵉkûwsh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “property.” Translators differ — “goods” in the King James Version, then “possessions” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 27 verses in 6 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Genesis, which alone accounts for 37% of its uses. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “goods” and “possessions”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7399 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 →
- 27
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 27 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,190
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,190 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 27 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 10 verses 37%
- 2 Chronicles 6 verses 22%
- Ezra 4 verses 15%
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 27 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 15 verses · 56%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 44%
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: Goods 7×, Substance 6×, Riches 4×
- American Standard Version: Substance 10×, Goods 5×, All his substance 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Possessions 12×, Goods 6×, Property 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Possessions 9×, Property 9×, Goods 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7399 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7399 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 H7399 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7399 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
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 3 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.
- 1. gen. term for movable possessions of all kinds (often specif. incl. cattle), Gn 12:5; 15:14; Nu 16:32; 1 Ch 27:31; 28:1; 2 Ch 31:3; 32:29; Ezr 8:21; 10:8. e.g. Genesis 12:5
- 2. used specif. of cattle, flocks, etc. Gn 13:6; 31:18; 36:7; Nu 35:3; 2 Ch 35:7. e.g. Genesis 13:6
- 3. of stores, utensils, etc. Gn 46:6; Ezr 1:4, 6, as camp-baggage Dn 11:13, especially as booty Gn 14:11, 12, 16(×2), 21; 2 Ch 20:25; 21:14, 17; Dn 11:24, 28. e.g. Genesis 46:6
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
n.m. Gn 13, 6 property, goods;—abs. רְכוּשׁ Nu 16:32 +, רְכֻשׁ Gn 14:16, 21; cstr. רְכוּשׁ 2 Ch 35:7, רְכֻשׁ Gn 14:11; sf. רְכֻשׁוֹ v 12 +, רְכוּשָׁם 12:5 +, etc.;—property, goods, PRChr Dn Gn 14:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רכש (râkash) (H7408) — to gather.
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.
רְכוּשׁ
- רכש to join, pile; cmp. רכב) goods, property. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXVII; 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 26 distinct written forms H7399 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7399, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 27 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 27 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
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.
