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מִסְכֵּנֻת

mis.ke.nut

poverty

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Strong’s H4544Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

scarcity1

In the text

Deuteronomy 8:9בְמִסְכֵּנֻת
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מִסְכֵּנֻת n.f. poverty, scarcity, Dt 8:9.

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.