Be poor
מוּךְStrong’s H4134mukh
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mukh is the Hebrew word usually translated “become impoverished” and “impoverished”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to be low, grow poor, be depressed, be poor
How it's translated
- he will become impoverished 3
- and he will become impoverished 1
- impoverished 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
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Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
- Leviticus 25:39And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
- Leviticus 25:47And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
- Leviticus 27:8But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
Hebrew dictionary
מוּךְ mukh · be poor
(Qal) to be low, grow poor, be depressed, be poor
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “impoverished” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IMPOV'ERISHED, participle passive
Reduced to poverty; exhausted.
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.