מִסְכֵּן
misken · poor
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4542 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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misken (מִסְכֵּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “poor”.
Without means.
How to say it
mis·ken
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- One who has very little, without wealth or power.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and senseless king who no longer knows how to be warned.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15
And there was found in it a poor wise man, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; yet no one remembered that poor man.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16
And I said, “Better is wisdom than might, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heard.”
And 1 more times.