עָשַׁר ʻâshar — properly, to accumulate
Translated in the KJV as be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make. See H6240.
a primitive root; properly, to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich.
ʻâshar in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Perfect (qatal) 2Infinitive construct 2Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1
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 made Abram rich:
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
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 killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Hitpa'el
Participle (active) 1
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›