Need
מַחְסוֹרStrong’s H4270machsor (mach-sor)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machsor is the Hebrew word usually translated “poverty”, “lack of” and “lack”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.”
Meaning
- Need, poverty, thing neededneed, thing needed · lack, want · need, poverty
How it's translated
- to poverty 4
- lack of 2
- lack 2
- lack his 1
- lack your 1
- and lack your 1
- poverty 1
- and poverti your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 8
- Judges 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 18:10When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
- Judges 19:19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
- Judges 19:20And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
- Psalms 34:9O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
- Proverbs 6:11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
- Proverbs 11:24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Hebrew dictionary
מַחְסוֹר machsor · need
1) need, poverty, thing needed 1a) need, thing needed 1b) lack, want 1c) need, poverty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “need” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEED, noun
[to be in want. The primary sense is to press.]
- Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief.“What further need have we of witnesses?” Matthew 26:65
- Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence.“I know how to abound and to suffer need” Philippians 4:12
All definitions and other forms of “need”
NEED, verb transitive
[ to compel]
To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick” Matthew 9:12
NEED, verb intransitive
To be wanted; to be necessary.
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.