מַחְסוֹר
mach.sor
“need”
Definition
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
or מַחְסֹר; from H2637 (חָסֵר);
- need, poverty, thing needed 1a) need, thing needed 1b) lack, want 1c) need, poverty
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מַחְסוֹר appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
One gives freely, yet gains even more;another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
The plans of the diligent bring plenty,as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the richwill surely lead to poverty.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.