Strong’s H4270 · Hebrew
מַחְסוֹר
machçôwr · makh-sore'
Origin or מַחְסֹר; from חָסֵר (H2637);
Meaning deficiency; hence, impoverishment
In the King James Version lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.
In 13 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 15:8But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
- Judges 18:10When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
- Judges 19:19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
- Judges 19:20And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
- Psalms 34:9O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
- Proverbs 6:11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
- Proverbs 11:24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
- Proverbs 14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
- Proverbs 21:5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- Proverbs 21:17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
- Proverbs 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
- Proverbs 24:34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
- Proverbs 28:27He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
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.