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.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Lack
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
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.
Read in context →Genesis
2 occurrences in 1 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where lack appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
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
Open full H7326 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
1 occurrence match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
G5532
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
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.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.