Bible word study

Yarash (Strong’s H3423): Meaning in the Bible

Yarash (יָרַשׁ) is the Hebrew word numbered H3423 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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. In the King James Bible it is translated cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess.

• Original wordיָרַשׁ
• Transliterationyârash
• Pronunciationyaw-rash'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3423
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or יָרֵשׁ; a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yarash appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yarash (H3423) stands behind 232 English renderings in 204 verses across 27 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (71), Joshua (29), Judges (27).

How the King James Bible renders Yarash, by count

• possess95 of 232 (41 percent)
• out46 of 232 (20 percent)
• inherit19 of 232 (8 percent)
• possessed19 of 232 (8 percent)
• heir9 of 232 (4 percent)
• possession6 of 232 (3 percent)

Three places to read Yarash

• Genesis 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
• Deuteronomy 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• 1 Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yarash in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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