Lexicon
מִסְכֵּנֻת
mis.ke.nut
H4544
H:N-F Hebrew

poverty

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mis.ke.nut denotes the condition excluded in a land where bread is eaten without scarcity and nothing is lacking.

The term denotes the condition absent from the promised land: Deuteronomy 8:9 sets it against eating bread without scarcity and lacking nothing.

Senses in use

  1. Lack excluded by abundance · dominant

    In Deuteronomy 8:9, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs in the statement that bread will be eaten without scarcity and that nothing will be lacking; the APB renders the surrounding clause, "A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will lack nothing in it."

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Deuteronomy 8:9, the APB presents the clause as eating bread "without scarcity" and lacking nothing. Its precise English correspondence to the noun cannot be isolated with certainty.

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