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Riches:
rich'-ez, rich'-iz: Used to render the following Hebrew and Greek words:
(1) ?Osher, which should, perhaps, be considered the most general word, as it is the most often used (Ge 31:16; Ec 4:8; Jer 9:23). It looks at riches simply as riches, without regard to any particular feature. Alongside this would go the Greek ploutos (Mt 13:22; Eph 2:7).
(2) Chocen (Pr 27:24; Jer 20:5), nekhacim and rekhush (Ge 36:7; Da 11:13,14 the King James Version) look at riches as things accumulated, collected, amassed.
(3) Hon looks upon riches as earnings, the fruit of toil (Ps 119:14; Pr 8:18; Eze 27:27).
(4) Hamon regards riches in the aspect of being much, this coming from the original idea of noise, through the idea of a multitude as making the noise, the idea of many, or much, being in multitude (Ps 37:16 the King James Version).
(5) Chayil regards riches as power (Ps 62:1; Isa 8:4; 10:14).
(6) Yithrah means "running over," and so presents riches as abundance (Jer 48:36 the King James Version). Along with this may be placed shua?, which has the idea of breadth, and so of abundance (Job 36:19 the King James Version).
(7) Qinyan regards riches as a creation, something made (Ps 104:24; compare margin);
(8) (chrema) looks at riches as useful (Mr 10:23 f parallel). Like the New Testament, the Apoe uses only ploutos and chrema.
Material riches are regarded by the Scriptures as neither good nor bad in themselves, but only according as they are properly or improperly used. They are transitory (Pr 27:24); they are not to be trusted in (Mr 10:23; Lu 18:24; 1Ti 6:17); they are not to be gloried in (Jer 9:23); the heart is not to be set on them (Ps 62:10); but they are made by God (Ps 104:24), and come from God (1Ch 29:12); and they are the crown of the wise (Pr 14:24). Material riches are used to body forth for us the most precious and glorious realities of the spiritual realm. See, e.g., Ro 9:23; 11:33; Eph 2:7; Php 4:19; Col 1:27.
Written by E. J. Forrester
See MAMMON
See TREASURE
See WEALTH
Riches:
Riches: To God Belongs This World's Riches
Riches: God Gives Power to Obtain
Riches: The Blessing of the Lord Brings
Riches: Give Worldly Power
Riches: Described As
Temporary
Uncertain
Unsatisfying
Corruptible
Fleeting
Deceitful
Liable to be stolen
Perishable
Thick clay
Riches: Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel
Riches: Deceitfulness Of, Chokes the Word
Riches: The Love Of, the Root of All Evil
Riches: Often Lead To
Pride
Forgetting God
Denying God
Forsaking God
Rebelling against God
Rejecting Christ
Self-sufficiency
Anxiety
An overbearing spirit
Violence
Oppression
Fraud
Sensual indulgence
Riches: Life Consists Not in Abundance Of
Riches: Be Not Over-Anxious For
Riches: Labour Not For
Riches: They Who Covet
Fall into temptation and a snare
Fall into hurtful lusts
Err from the faith
Use unlawful means to acquire
Bring trouble on themselves
Bring trouble on their families
Riches: Profit Not in the Day of Wrath
Riches: Cannot Secure Prosperity
Riches: Cannot Redeem the Soul
Riches: Cannot Deliver in the Day of God's Wrath
Riches: They Who Possess, Should
Ascribe them to God
Not trust in them
Not set the heart on them
Not boast of obtaining them
Not glory in them
Not hoard them up
Devote them to God's service
Give of them to the poor
Use them in promoting the salvation of others
Be liberal in all things
Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give
Not to be high-minded
When converted, rejoice in being humbled
Riches: Of the Wicked Laid up for the Just
Riches: The Wicked
Often increase in
Often spend their day in
Swallow down
Trust in the abundance of
Heap up
Keep, to their hurt
Boast themselves in
Profit not by
Have trouble with
Must leave, to others
Riches: Denunciations against Those Who
Get, by vanity
Get, unlawfully
Increase, by oppression
Pro 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2,3
Hoard up
Trust in
Receive their consolation
Abuse
Spend, upon their appetite
Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated
Riches: Danger of Misusing-Illustrated
Riches: Examples of Saints Possessing
Abram
Lot
Isaac
Jacob
Joseph
Boaz
Barzillai
Shunammite
David
Jehoshaphat
Hezekiah
Job
Joseph of Arimathea
Zacchaeus
Dorcas
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