Ashar means “make” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6238 עָשַׁר (`ashar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ashar (aw-shar') v. 1. (properly) to accumulate 2. chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich It has 17 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include rich, riches, made, and make. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ashar (aw-shar') v. 1. (properly) to accumulate 2. chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich [a primitive root] KJV: be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make (1 Kings 22 See also: H6240
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to enrich
Usage: 1) to be or become rich or wealthy, enrich, pretend to be rich 1a) (Qal) to be or become rich 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to make rich 1b2) to gain riches 1c) (Hithpael) to enrich oneself, pretend to be rich
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ashar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6238.
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.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
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, when thou hast so provided for it.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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 riches and of thy merchandise.
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 all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
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.
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 shepherds pity them not.
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Ashar (Strong's H6238) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "make". `ashar (aw-shar') v. 1. (properly) to accumulate 2. chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H6238 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6238 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rich, riches, made, and make. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.