poverty
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.
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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.