evyon (needy) · Rightly

Meaning

In want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person
Subject to oppression and abuse
Needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God
General reference to lowest class

How it's translated

needy 23
and needy 23
to the needy 4
a needy 2
for the needy 2
needy your 1
needy of 1
and to needy your 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 22
Job 6
Deuteronomy 5
Isaiah 5
Amos 5
Proverbs 4

11 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Exodus 23:11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Deuteronomy 15:4Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
Deuteronomy 15:7If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Deuteronomy 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy 15:11For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Deuteronomy 24:14Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

All 58 verses, by book

Exodus 2: 23:6 23:11
Deuteronomy 5: 15:4 15:7 15:9 15:11 24:14
1 Samuel 1: 2:8
Esther 1: 9:22
Job 6: 5:15 24:4 24:14 29:16 30:25 31:19
Psalms 22: 9:18 12:5 35:10 37:14 40:17 49:2 69:33 70:5 72:4 72:12 72:13 74:21 82:4 86:1 107:41 109:16 109:22 109:31 112:9 113:7 132:15 140:12
Proverbs 4: 14:31 30:14 31:9 31:20
Isaiah 5: 14:30 25:4 29:19 32:7 41:17
Jeremiah 4: 2:34 5:28 20:13 22:16
Ezekiel 3: 16:49 18:12 22:29
Amos 5: 2:6 4:1 5:12 8:4 8:6

Hebrew dictionary

אֶבְיוֹן evyon · needy

1) in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person 2) subject to oppression and abuse 3) needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God 4) general reference to lowest class

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “needy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

NEEDY, adjective

Necessitous; indigent; very poor; distressed by want of the means of living.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.