רוּשׁ rûwsh — to be destitute
Translated in the KJV as lack, needy, poor.
a primitive root; to be destitute.
rûwsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 21Perfect (qatal) 1
And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
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.
Hitpolel
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 ›