1) to be or become rich or wealthy, enrich, pretend to be rich
1a) (Qal) to be or become rich
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to make rich
1b2) to gain riches
1c) (Hithpael) to enrich oneself, pretend to be rich
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; properly, to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich
KJV glosses: be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make (1 Kings 22:48 marg). See H6240 (עָשָׂר).
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How translators render H6238
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and rich
1
and wealth
1
be rich
1
bring wealth
1
enriches
1
for i am rich
1
grows rich
1
how rich i have become
1
longer be rich
1
one pretends to be rich
1
rich
1
richer
1
to be rich
1
to get rich
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will give
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you enrich it
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you enriched
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KJV rendering counts
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and maketh rich
1
and waxen rich
1
enrichest
1
for i am rich
1
he shall not be rich
1
i have made
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is made rich
1
it maketh rich
1
maketh rich
1
not to be rich
1
rich
1
richer
1
shall not be rich
1
that maketh himself rich
1
thou didst enrich
1
to be rich
1
will enrich
1
yet i am become rich
1
Verses containing H6238
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Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Now then, I will tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. By the power of his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
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