מִסְכֵּן
miçkên · H4542 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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poor
State in which humans lack the means to support themselves
ExamplesEcclesiastes 4:13 A poor yet wise youth is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction—
Ecclesiastes 9:15 But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
Ecclesiastes 9:16 So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are ignored.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חׇכְמָהwisdom 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- עָנִי ʻânîy · H6041 · afflicted, poor, humble
- Both words denote poverty or economic lowliness, in the area of poverty: 'poor' for the target term and 'poor, needy, lowly' for עָנִי (ʻânîy, H6041).
- דַּל dal · H1800 · door, poor, weak
- Both words denote economically poor persons, in a tight area of meaning. דַּל (dal, H1800) carries additional nuances of 'lean' and 'weaker', while the target term is simply 'poor man'; they describe the same social and economic state from slightly different angles.
- אֶבְיוֹן ʼebyôwn · H34 · poor, needy
- Both words denote poverty or poor persons, in a narrow area of meaning. They are two distinct words for 'poor [man]' that could substitute for one another in context.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πένης pénēs · G3993 · poor, needy
- Greek πένης (pénēs, G3993) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew מִסְכֵּן (miçkên, H4542), both denoting a poor or indigent person lacking material resources.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Poor002001001043
- מִסְכֵּן denotes a poor man, someone of low social and economic standing.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4542. misken מִסְכֵּן adjective poor, only Ecclesiastes (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id.;…
מִסְכֵּן adjective poor, only Ecclesiastes (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id.; PS2632; Arabic ; Ethiopic Di382; √ dubious; usually derived from III. סכן q. v.; perhaps loan-word; according to JenZA iv (1889), 271 f Zimib. vii (1892), 353 = Assyrian muškênu, beggar, needy one); — always absolute ׳מ: — מ ׳יֶלֶד וְחָכָם Ecc 4:13 (opposed to וּכְסִיל זֶקֵן מֶלֶח); מ ׳אִישׁ חָכָם Ecc 9:15, הַמּ ׳הָאִישׁ Ecc 9:15; as substantive ׳הַמּ Ecc 9:16 the poor man.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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