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2 Samuel 12:3
“But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7326 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to be destitute
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- לָ — preposition with definite article
- רָ֣שׁ — verb Qal, active participle, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 24 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Samuel 18:232 Samuel 12:12 Samuel 12:4Psalms 34:11Psalms 82:3
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רוּשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.