# H3423 יָרַשׁ

יָרַשׁ (yârash), Strong’s H3423: to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin KJV…

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*yârash* — to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

KJV: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel…

Occurs 231 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָרַשׁ 229 vb. take possession of, inherit, dispossess
- Qal
- 1 take possession of, esp. bu force, have as a possession, often with collat. idea of taking in place of others, succeeding to, inheriting
- 2 inherit, sq. acc. pers. = be one's heir
- 3 = impoverish
- Niph. be (dispossessed =) impoverished, come to poverty
- Pi. the fruit of thy ground shall the cricket get full possession
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to possess or inherit
- 2 cause (others) to possess or inherit, then gen. dispossess
- 3 = impoverish
- 4 nearly = bring to ruin, destroy
- 5 take possession of a land

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 15:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=3) — Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
- [Genesis 15:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=4) — Behold, the LORD’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body…
- [Genesis 15:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=7) — He said to Abram, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur-Kasdim, to give you this land to inherit it.”
- [Genesis 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=8) — He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
- [Genesis 21:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=10) — Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my…
- [Genesis 22:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=17) — that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the…
- [Genesis 24:60](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=60) — They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your…
- [Genesis 28:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=4) — and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you…
- [Genesis 45:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=11) — There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your…
- [Exodus 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=9) — The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will…