Poverty
חֶ֫סֶרStrong’s H2639cheser (che-ser)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheser is the Hebrew word usually translated “poverty”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
Meaning
- Poverty, want
How it's translated
- in poverty 1
- poverty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫סֶר cheser · poverty
poverty, want
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “poverty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POV'ERTY, noun
[Latin paupertas. See Poor.]
- Destitution of property; indigence; want of convenient means of subsistence.“The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty” Proverbs 23:21
- Barrenness of sentiment or ornament; defect; as the poverty of a composition.
- Want; defect of words; as the poverty of language.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.