787. osh

Strong's Lexicon

osh: To be strong, to be firm

Original Word: אוֹשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: osh
Pronunciation: [ohsh]
Phonetic Spelling: (ohsh)
Definition: To be strong, to be firm
Meaning: a foundation

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
(Aramaic) probably of foreign origin
Definition
a foundation
NASB Translation
foundations (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אשׁ K^{§ 55, 5 c}] noun masculine^{Ezra 6:3} foundation (probably loan-word from Assyrian uššû, id., √ אשׁשׁ (see Biblical Hebrew), so Zim^{KAT 3. 649}; ᵑ7 feminine אוּשָׁא, Late Hebrew אוּשָׁה, Christian- Palestinian Aramaic , , Schulth^{Lex. 19}; Arabic : Nö^{M 99}); — plural emphatic אֻשַּׁיָּא Ezra 4:12; Ezra 5:16; suffix אֻשֹּׁהִי Ezra 6:3.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

foundation

(Aramaic) corresponding (by transposition and abbreviation) to 'ashuwyah; a foundation -- foundation.

see HEBREW 'ashuwyah

Forms and Transliterations

אֻשַּׁיָּ֛א אשיא וְאֻשַּׁיָּ֖א וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִי ואשוהי ואשיא ’uš·šay·yā ’uššayyā ushshaiYa veushshaiYa veushShohi wə’uššayyā wə’uššōwhî wə·’uš·šay·yā wə·’uš·šō·w·hî

Englishman's Concordance

Ezra 4:12
HEB: (שַׁכְלִ֔לוּ ק) וְאֻשַּׁיָּ֖א יַחִֽיטוּ׃
NAS: and repairing the foundations.
KJV: [thereof], and joined the foundations.
INT: wall complete the foundations and repairing

Ezra 5:16
HEB: אֲתָ֗א יְהַ֧ב אֻשַּׁיָּ֛א דִּי־ בֵ֥ית
NAS: [and] laid the foundations of the house
KJV: [and] laid the foundation of the house
INT: came laid the foundations forasmuch of the house

Ezra 6:3
HEB: דָבְחִ֣ין דִּבְחִ֔ין וְאֻשּׁ֖וֹהִי מְסֽוֹבְלִ֑ין רוּמֵהּ֙
NAS: be rebuilt and let its foundations be retained,
KJV: sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid;
INT: offered sacrifices the foundations laid the height

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 787
3 Occurrences

’uš·šay·yā — 1 Occ.
wə·’uš·šay·yā — 1 Occ.
wə·’uš·šō·w·hî — 1 Occ.