riches: great material wealth, the abundance of money, goods, and prized possessions that marks a person as rich
This word names wealth itself: the sheer abundance of silver, livestock, land, and fine possessions that sets a rich person apart. It is what a king like Solomon is famous for and what a prosperous family passes down. The focus falls on the quantity and the standing it brings, not on any one kind of property.
It is at home in Israel's wisdom writings, where it carries a deliberate double edge. Proverbs can present riches as a reward that walks alongside honor and long life, and as something wisdom itself holds out. Yet the same books warn that riches are unreliable, that they can vanish overnight, and that they tempt a person to trust in them instead of in God. Ecclesiastes returns again and again to wealth that its owner never lives to enjoy.
Across all its uses the sense stays steady. It always points to concrete material wealth rather than to an inner or spiritual kind of richness, so the reader should hear it as plain prosperity, colored good or bad only by the passage around it.