רוּשׁ
rûwsh · roosh
to be destitute
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be destitute
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to fasten and establish › to consume, to destroy
The head, the highest that works to fasten and establish that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רוּשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the poor5 · 21%
- of the poor3 · 13%
- but the poor2 · 8%
- is the poor2 · 8%
- seeing that i am a poor1 · 4%
- poor1 · 4%
- do lack1 · 4%
- and needy1 · 4%
- he becometh poor1 · 4%
- yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor1 · 4%
- and a poor man1 · 4%
- and poor1 · 4%
- over the poor1 · 4%
- a poor1 · 4%
- unto the poor1 · 4%
- becometh poor1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.