Strong’s H4542 · Hebrew
מִסְכֵּן
miçkên · mis-kane'
Origin from סִכְלוּת (H5531);
Meaning indigent
In the King James Version poor (man).
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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.