Riches
Riches
See Wealth.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Riches
(the rendering in the A.V. of several Heb. and Gr. words, especially , ). The wealth of a pastoral people, such as the Hebrews in the patriarchal age, consisted chiefly in flocks and herds. Hence we find it assigned as a cause of the separation of Esau and Jacob that their riches were more than they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle (Gen 36:8). It was not until the reign of Solomon that the Jews possessed any abundance of the precious metals; and as the nation never became commercial, its rich men must in all ages have been the great land holders. Throughout the East the holders of land have ever been remarkable for exacting very disproportionate shares of the profit from the actual cultivators of the soil, and this is the reason why we find the rich so often and so severely denounced in Scripture. Riches is frequently used in a metaphorical sense for intellectual endowments, and for the gifts and graces of God’s Holy Spirit, which constitute the treasure to be laid up in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Riches
RICHES.See Wealth.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Riches
richez, richiz: 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 (Gen 31:16; Ecc 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 (Mat 13:22; Eph 2:7). (2) Hosen (Pro 27:24; Jer 20:5), nekhasm and rekhush (Gen 36:7; Dan 11:13, Dan 11:14 the King James Version) look at riches as things accumulated, collected, amassed. (3) Hon looks upon riches as earnings, the fruit of toil (Psa 119:14; Pro 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 (Psa 37:16 the King James Version). (5) Hayil regards riches as power (Psa 62:1-12 :19; Isa 8:4; Isa 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) Kinyan regards riches as a creation, something made (Psa 104:24; compare margin); (8) (, chrema) looks at riches as useful (Mar 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 (Pro 27:24); they are not to be trusted in (Mar 10:23; Luk 18:24; 1Ti 6:17); they are not to be gloried in (Jer 9:23); the heart is not to be set on them (Psa 62:10); but they are made by God (Psa 104:24), and come from God (1Ch 29:12); and they are the crown of the wise (Pro 14:24). Material riches are used to body forth for us the most precious and glorious realities of the spiritual realm. See, e.g., Rom 9:23; Rom 11:33; Eph 2:7; Phi 4:19; Col 1:27. Compare MAMMON; TREASURE; WEALTH.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Riches
General references
Deu 6:10-12; Deu 8:10-18; Deu 31:20; Deu 32:15; 1Sa 2:7; Psa 37:16; Pro 10:2; Pro 10:22; Pro 11:4; Pro 11:28; Pro 13:7-8; Pro 14:24; Pro 15:6; Pro 15:16-17; Pro 16:8; Pro 19:4; Pro 21:6; Pro 23:4-5; Pro 27:23-24; Pro 28:8; Pro 28:20; Pro 28:22; Pro 30:8-9; Ecc 5:9-20; Ecc 6:1-2; Ecc 7:11-12; Ecc 10:19; Isa 5:8; Jer 48:36; Hos 12:8; Mat 6:19-21; Mat 13:22; Mat 19:16-29; Mar 10:17-25; Luk 18:18-25; Mar 4:19; Luk 12:15; 1Ti 6:4-11; 1Ti 6:17-19; Jas 2:6-7; Jas 5:1-5; 1Jn 3:17
Figurative
Rev 3:18 Covetousness; Rich, The