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# מִסְכֵּנֻת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4544

**poverty** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

poverty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4544/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִסְכֵּנֻת: n.f. poverty, scarcity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4544/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. poverty, scarcity, Dt 8:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 8:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.9/#tree)

אֶ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹ֤א בְמִסְכֵּנֻת֙ תֹּֽאכַל־בָּ֣הּ לֶ֔חֶם לֹֽא־תֶחְסַ֥ר כֹּ֖ל בָּ֑הּ אֶ֚רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲבָנֶ֣יהָ בַרְזֶ֔ל וּמֵהֲרָרֶ֖יהָ תַּחְצֹ֥ב נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* a.land which not in scarcity you.will.eat in it food not you.will.lack anything in it a.land which stones its \[are\].iron and from hills its you.will.dig copper

*JPS 1917:* a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4544/): 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).