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Verses
167 results- VersePsalms 49:2both low and high, rich and poor alike.
- VerseJob 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
- VerseProverbs 10:4Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
- VerseProverbs 18:23The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
- VersePsalms 109:22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
People
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22 results- WordH34 אֶבְיוֹן · ʼebyôwn (Hebrew)destitute. The Hebrew word stands 61 times in the original text.
- WordH1800 דַּל · dal (Hebrew)properly, dangling, i.e. (by implication) weak or thin. The Hebrew word stands 47 times in the original text.
- WordH1803 דַּלָּה · dallâh (Hebrew)properly, something dangling, i.e. a loose thread or hair. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
- WordH2489 חֵלְכָא · chêlᵉkâʼ (Hebrew)a wretch, i.e. unfortunate. The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH4270 מַחְסוֹר · machçôwr (Hebrew)deficiency. The Hebrew word stands 13 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
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4 results- VoiceOral RobertsOral Roberts grew up poor in Oklahoma, stuttered badly, and collapsed with tuberculosis at seventeen; he said he was healed at a tent meeting his brother drove him to, and that…
- VoiceWalafrid StraboWalafrid was born about 808 in Swabia, of poor parents, and was given as a child to the island monastery of Reichenau on Lake Constance. The nickname Strabo means squint-eyed…
- VoiceRobert Murray M'CheyneRobert Murray M'Cheyne took the new parish of St Peter's in Dundee at twenty-three and worked it like a man who knew he had little time — visiting the poor of a mill town…
- VoiceAugust Hermann FranckeAugust Hermann Francke was a young professor at Halle when he put a poor-box in his parsonage and, one day in 1695, found enough money in it to start a school for poor…
Apocrypha (study resources)
36 results- Study resourceSirach 31:4The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth off, he is still needy.
- Study resourceSirach 7:32And stretch thine hand unto the poor, that thy blessing may be perfected.
- Study resourceSirach 13:20As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.
- Study resourceSirach 29:9Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.
- Study resourceSirach 10:22Whether he be rich, noble, or poor, their glory is the fear of the Lord.
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