Poverty
רֵישׁStrong’s H7389resh
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Resh is the Hebrew word usually translated “poverty”, “poverty your” and “poverty their”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.”
Meaning
- Poverty
- Poverty
How it's translated
- poverty 3
- poverty your 2
- poverty their 1
- poverty his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 7
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Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 10:15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- Proverbs 13:18Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
- Proverbs 24:34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
- Proverbs 28:19He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
- Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
- Proverbs 31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Hebrew dictionary
רֵישׁ resh · poverty
poverty Also means: rish (רִישׁ "poverty" H7389B)
רִישׁ rish · poverty
poverty Another spelling of resh (רֵישׁ "poverty" H7389A)
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.