Wealth
חֹ֫סֶןStrong’s H2633chosen (cho-sen)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chosen is the Hebrew word usually translated “wealth”, “wealth of” and “treasure”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.”
Meaning
- Riches, treasure, wealth
How it's translated
- wealth 2
- wealth of 2
- treasure 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 27:24For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
- Isaiah 33:6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
- Jeremiah 20:5Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
- Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫סֶן chosen · wealth
riches, treasure, wealth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wealth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEALTH, noun
- Prosperity; external happiness.
- Riches; large possessions of money, goods or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds the estate of the greater part of the community; affluence; opulence.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.