Poverty
שֵׁ֫פֶלStrong’s H8216shephel (she-phel)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shephel is the Hebrew word usually translated “who in low condition our” and “low place”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:”
Meaning
- Lowliness, low estate or condition
How it's translated
- who in low condition our 1
- in the low place 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁ֫פֶל shephel · poverty
lowliness, low estate or condition
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.