מִסְכֵּנֻת
miskenut · scarcity, poverty
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4544 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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miskenut (מִסְכֵּנֻת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scarcity, poverty”.
How to say it
mis·ke·nut
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
- Lack of what is needed to live, above all of bread.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 8:9
a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you will dig out copper.