Definition

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

Etymology

or יָרֵשׁ; a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• cast out
• consume
• destroy
• disinherit
• dispossess
• drive(-ing) out
• enjoy
• expel
• without fail
• (give to
• leave for) inherit(-ance
• -or) magistrate
• be (make) poor
• come to poverty
• make to) possess
• get (have) in (take) possession
• seize upon
• succeed
• utterly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.