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# מַחְסוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4270

**need** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

need [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4270/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְסוֹר: need, thing needed, poverty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4270/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] need, thing needed, poverty;—מ׳ abs. Pr 11:24 + 6 times; cstr. Ju 18:10; 19:19; sf. מַחְסוֹרְךָ Ju 19:20; מַחְסֹרְךָ Pr 6:11; מַחְסֹרוֹ Dt 15:8; pl. sf. מַחְסֹרֶיךָ Pr 24:34;— need = thing needed דֵּי מַחְסֹרוֹ Dt 15:8 enough for his need (sq. אשׁר יֶחְסַר לוֹ, cf. חָסֵר vb.); כָּל־מ׳ עָלָ֑י Ju 19:20 all thy need be upon me (for me to provide). lack, want אֵין מ׳ כָּל־דָּבָר Ju 18:10 no lack of anything, 19:19 ψ 34:10. in gen., need, poverty Pr 6:11 (‖ רֵאשׁ) = 24:34 (‖ רֵישׁ), 11:24; 14:23; 21:5; 22:16; 28:27; אִישׁ מ׳ 21:17 a man of poverty.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lack (10); his lack (1); lack(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 21:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.17/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ מַ֭חְסוֹר אֹהֵ֣ב שִׂמְחָ֑ה אֹהֵ֥ב יַֽיִן־וָ֝שֶׁ֗מֶן לֹ֣א יַעֲשִֽׁיר׃

*Word for word:* \[will.be\].a.person of.lack \[one.who\].loves pleasure \[one.who\].loves wine and oil not he.will.gain.riches

*JPS 1917:* He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

[Psalms 34:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.10/#tree)

יְר֣אוּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה קְדֹשָׁ֑יו כִּי־אֵ֥ין מַ֝חְס֗וֹר לִירֵאָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* fear (et) Yahweh O his.holy.\[ones\] (dm) there.\[is\].not lack for.\[those\] fearing him

*JPS 1917:* O fear the LORD, ye His holy ones; for there is no want to them that fear Him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4270.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4270/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).