# H6238 עָשַׁר

עָשַׁר (ʻâshar), Strong’s H6238: properly, to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich KJV: be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make (1 Kings 22:48 marg). See H6240…

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*ʻâshar* — properly, to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich

KJV: be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make (1 Kings 22:48 marg). See H6240 (עָשָׂר).

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָשַׁר] vb. be or become rich
- Qal I have become rich
- Hiph.
- 1 make rich
- 2 gain riches
- Hithp. one enriching himself.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 14:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=23) — that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram…
- [1 Samuel 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=7) — The LORD makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
- [1 Samuel 17:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/17?v=25) — The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will…
- [Jeremiah 5:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=27) — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
- [Ezekiel 27:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/27?v=33) — When your wares came from the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of…
- [Hosea 12:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/12?v=9) — Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any…
- [Zechariah 11:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/11?v=5) — Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;’ and their…
- [Psalms 49:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/49?v=17) — Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
- [Psalms 65:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/65?v=10) — You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain…
- [Proverbs 10:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/10?v=4) — He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.