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רִישׁ

rish

poverty

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Strong’s H7389bNoun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

poverty2

In the text

Proverbs 28:19רִישׁ
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

רִישׁ, רֵישׁ, רֵאשׁ n.m. poverty, only Pr

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.