# עָשַׁר (ashar)

Israeli respelling: a-shar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6238. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

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

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

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ashar-h6238

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 14:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/14/23) — That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have…
- [1 Samuel 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/7) — The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
- [1 Samuel 17:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/25) — And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who k…
- [Job 15:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/29) — He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
- [Psalms 49:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/16) — Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
- [Psalms 65:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/9) — Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn…
- [Proverbs 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/4) — He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
- [Proverbs 10:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/22) — The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
- [Proverbs 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/7) — There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
- [Proverbs 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/17) — He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
- [Proverbs 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/4) — Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
- [Proverbs 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/20) — A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
- [Jeremiah 5:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/27) — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
- [Ezekiel 27:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/33) — When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy ri…
- [Daniel 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/2) — And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they al…
- [Hosea 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/8) — And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
- [Zechariah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/5) — Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own…