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Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Read in context →Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Read in context →8 occurrences in 8 verses.
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machçôwr · makh-sore'
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
Strong's KJV usage: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.
Strong's first: Judges 18:10Strong's last: Proverbs 24:34
Open full H4270 profile →châçêr · khaw-sare'
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: Psalms 23:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 4:17
Open full H2637 profile →chôçer · kho'-ser
poverty
Strong's KJV usage: in want of.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:48Strong's last: Amos 4:6
Open full H2640 profile →kârath · kaw-rath'
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
Strong's KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), × lose, perish, × utterly, × want.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 33:17Strong's last: Jeremiah 35:19
Open full H3772 profile →hystérēma · hoos-ter'-ay-mah
a deficit; specially, poverty
Strong's KJV usage: :--that which is behind, (that which was) lack(-ing), penury, want.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 8:14Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 9:12
Open full G5303 profile →hystérēsis · hoos-ter'-ay-sis
a falling short, i.e. (specially), penury
Strong's KJV usage: :--want.
Strong's first: Mark 12:44Strong's last: Philippians 4:11
Open full G5304 profile →hysteréō · hoos-ter-eh'-o
to be later, i.e. (by implication) to be inferior; generally, to fall short (be deficient)
Strong's KJV usage: :--come behind (short), be destitute, fail, lack, suffer need, (be in) want, be the worse.
Strong's first: Luke 15:14Strong's last: Luke 15:14
Open full G5302 profile →ʼepheç · eh'-fes
cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot
Strong's KJV usage: ankle, but (only), end, howbeit, less than nothing, nevertheless (where), no, none (beside), not (any, -withstanding), thing of nought, save(-ing), there, uttermost part, want, without (cause).
Strong's first: Proverbs 14:28Strong's last: Proverbs 14:28
Open full H657 profile →châçêr · khaw-sare'
lacking; hence, without
Strong's KJV usage: destitute, fail, lack, have need, void, want.
Strong's first: Proverbs 10:21Strong's last: Proverbs 10:21
Open full H2638 profile →cheçer · kheh'-ler
lack; hence, destitution
Strong's KJV usage: poverty, want.
Strong's first: Job 30:3Strong's last: Job 30:3
Open full H2639 profile →lôʼ · lo
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
Strong's KJV usage: × before, or else, ere, except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (× as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, surely, as truly as, of a truth, verily, for want, whether, without.
Strong's first: Proverbs 13:23Strong's last: Proverbs 13:23
Open full H3808 profile →pâqad · paw-kad'
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want.
Strong's first: Isaiah 34:16Strong's last: Isaiah 34:16
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For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
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WANT, noun
1. Deficiency; defect; the absence of that which is necessary or useful; as a want of power or knowledge fro any purpose; want of food and clothing. The want of money is a common want 2 Corinthians 8:14, 9.
From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes.
2. Need; necessity; the effect of deficiency.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want and more saucy.
3. Poverty; penury; indigence.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want
4. The state of not having. I cannot write a letter at present for want of time.
5. That which is not possessed, but is desired or necessary for use or pleasure.
Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
6. A mole.
WANT, verb transitive waunt.
1. To be destitute; to be deficient in; not to have; a word of general application; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing; to want money.
2. To be defective or deficient in. Timber may want strength or solidity to answer its purpose.
3. To fall short; not to contain or have. The sum want a dollar of the amount of debt.
Nor think, though men were none, that heaven would want spectators, God want praise.
4. To be without.
The unhappy never want enemies.
5. To need; to have occasion for, as useful, proper or requisite. Our manners want correction. In winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. We all want more public spirit and more virtue.
6. To wish for; to desire. Every man wants a little pre-eminence over his neighbor. Many want that which they cannot obtain, and which if they could obtain, would certainly ruin them.
What wants my son?
WANT, verb intransitive waunt.
1. To be deficient; not to be sufficient.
As in bodies, thus in souls, we find what wants in blood and spirits, swelld with wind.
2. To fail; to be deficient; to be lacking.
No time shall find me wanting to my truth.
3. To be missed; not to be present. The jury was full, wanting one.
4. To fall short; to be lacking.
Twelve, wanting one, he slew.
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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