יָרַשׁ yârash — to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place)
Translated in the KJV as cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate.
or יָרֵשׁ; a primitive root; to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin.
yârash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 52Imperfect (yiqtol) 32Sequential perfect (weqatal) 32Wayyiqtol 18Participle (active) 11Imperative 7Perfect (qatal) 6Jussive 1Cohortative 1
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 23Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Infinitive construct 9Wayyiqtol 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Participle (active) 4Infinitive absolute 3
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
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 ›