need
mach.sor denotes a condition of lacking what is required, whether provision is supplied or deprivation results.
The occurrences describe a condition in which something required is lacking: it can be met through lending or hospitality, denied in a place said to lack nothing, or arrive as deprivation through haste, idleness, or harmful conduct.
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Lack of what is required · dominant
The singular construct form in Deuteronomy 15:8 occurs in the instruction to lend a person enough for what is lacking. In Judges 18:10 and Judges 19:19, construct forms occur in statements that nothing is lacking or that the travelers have no unmet requirement; absolute forms in Proverbs 21:5 and Proverbs 22:16 place the condition as the result of hasty or oppressive conduct. In Proverbs 6:11, the construct form is pictured arriving alongside poverty.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with expressions such as “need,” “lack,” and “poverty,” including the contrast that those who seek the LORD “lack no good thing” in Psalm 34:10. These are verse-level renderings rather than fixed English equivalents for the lemma.