Lexicon
רוּשׁ
rush
H7326
H:V Hebrew

be poor

24
Occurrences
5
Books
Hebrew
Language

rush describes people marked by lack of resources, often set beside the rich and exposed to dependence or mistreatment.

The term regularly identifies people of limited resources, often contrasted with the rich or depicted as lacking possessions, seeking help, or receiving unjust treatment. The supplied forms chiefly occur as Qal active participles describing such persons, including plural references to a group.

Senses in use

  1. Persons lacking resources · dominant

    The Qal active participle identifies a person in conditions of material lack: in 2 Samuel 12:3 the APB renders the man as having nothing except one small ewe-lamb, and in Proverbs 18:23 it contrasts his supplications with the rich man's harsh reply. The same use appears in contrasts with the rich in Proverbs 14:20 and Proverbs 22:7, while Psalm 82:3 places the person among those to be judged justly.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across many supplied verses, the APB presents the relevant person as “poor,” especially in contrasts with “the rich” or in scenes of need and justice. Its wording cannot isolate the term's contribution in every occurrence; Psalm 34:11 and Ecclesiastes 5:7 do not make that contribution clear in the supplied English.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture