Genesis 18:28
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
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Lack
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James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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2 occurrences in 1 verses.
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חָסֵר
châçêr · khaw-sare'
4 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
Strong's KJV usage: be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:28Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 9:8
Open full H2637 profile →בְּלִי
bᵉlîy · bel-ee'
2 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not, un(awares), without.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 4:11Strong's last: Job 38:41
Open full H1097 profile →ἐλαττονέω
elattonéō · el-at-ton-eh-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to diminish, i.e. fall short
Strong's KJV usage: :--have lack.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 8:15Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 8:15
Open full G1641 profile →λείπω
leípō · li'-po
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to leave, i.e. (intransitively or passively) to fail or be absent
Strong's KJV usage: :--be destitute (wanting), lack.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 1:5Strong's last: James 1:5
Open full G3007 profile →ὑστέρημα
hystérēma · hoos-ter'-ay-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
a deficit; specially, poverty
Strong's KJV usage: :--that which is behind, (that which was) lack(-ing), penury, want.
Strong's first: Philippians 2:30Strong's last: Philippians 2:30
Open full G5303 profile →χρεία
chreía · khri'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form47 total Strong's occurrences
employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution
Strong's KJV usage: :--business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 4:12Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 4:12
Open full G5532 profile →מַחְסוֹר
machçôwr · makh-sore'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
Strong's KJV usage: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.
Strong's first: Proverbs 28:27Strong's last: Proverbs 28:27
Open full H4270 profile →רוּשׁ
rûwsh · roosh
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
to be destitute
Strong's KJV usage: lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).
Strong's first: Psalms 34:10Strong's last: Psalms 34:10
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H2637
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
no direct Strong's tag
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
H2637
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
H2637
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
H1097
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
H1097
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
H7326
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
H4270
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
H2637
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
no direct Strong's tag
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
no direct Strong's tag
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
G1641
As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
G5303
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
G5532
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
G3007
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
English meaning and historical usage.
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lack
LACK, verb transitive [Latin deliquium, which seems to be connected with linquo, to leave, to faint, and with liquo, to melt, liquid, etc.]
1. To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God - James 1:5.
2. To blame. [Not in use.]
LACK, verb intransitive
1. To be in want.
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. Psalms 34:10.
2. To be wanting.
Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous.
Genesis 18:28.
LACK, noun Want; destitution; need; failure.
He that gathered little, had no lack Exodus 14:1.
LACK of rupees is one hundred thousand rupees, which at 55 cents each, amount to fifty five thousand dollars, or at 2 Samuel 6:1d. sterling, to 12, 500 pounds.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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