Lexicon
רְכוּשׁ
re.khush
H7399
H:N-M Hebrew

property

28
Occurrences
6
Books
Hebrew
Language

re.khush denotes owned possessions and material holdings, whether gathered, carried away, protected, or distributed.

The term consistently denotes a person's or ruler's material holdings as a collective: possessions gathered for travel, goods seized or restored, resources held by a king, and wealth carried or distributed. The verses apply it to belongings in personal, household, royal, and public settings without requiring a narrower class of items.

Senses in use

  1. Owned possessions and material holdings · dominant

    In Genesis 12:5, the noun occurs for the holdings Abram's household had gathered before setting out; in Genesis 14:11 and Genesis 14:16, the clauses concern possessions taken from Sodom and Gomorrah and then returned. It also covers royal and other substantial holdings: in 2 Chronicles 21:17 the APB renders the clause about what invaders carried away from the king's house, while Ezra 10:8 concerns holdings subject to destruction and Daniel 11:28 describes a return with extensive wealth.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB uses "property," "possessions," "goods," "wealth," and "acquisition" in clauses concerning material holdings. These renderings confirm the broad setting rather than assign a separate meaning to each wording.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture