yarash

This is the verb of taking over. Most often it describes Israel taking possession of Canaan: moving into the land, settling it, and making it their own. The same word can name the act of seizing and the lasting state of holding, so it covers both "go in and take" and "now possess."

Because taking a land usually meant displacing its current people, the word also carries the sharper edge of dispossessing them. When the cause of the action is highlighted, it means to drive out the inhabitants so the land falls to someone else. This is the same act seen from the other side: one people moves in only as another is pushed out.

The word also reaches into family law, where an heir takes possession of an estate when the previous owner dies. Whether the object is a nation's territory or a single household's inheritance, the core idea is the same: coming into firm hold of what was held by another.

The same root can turn back on the one who loses. Instead of taking another's holding, here a person is the one dispossessed, left without and sinking into want.

This sense is rare and shows up in warnings about hunger, laziness, or hard times that leave someone with nothing. It is the flip side of the main idea: where the common sense is gaining a hold on property, this sense is having property slip away until poverty sets in.