Strong’s H2639 · Hebrew
חֶסֶר
cheçer · kheh'-ler
Origin from חָסֵר (H2637);
Meaning lack; hence, destitution
In the King James Version poverty, want.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Proverbs 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.