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מִסְכֵּן

mis.ken

poor

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Strong’s H4542Adjective4 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

poor3

poor person1

In the text

Ecclesiastes 4:13מִסְכֵּן
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מִסְכֵּן adj. poor, only Ec.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.