Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4270
מַחְסוֹר
machsormakh-sore'
need
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machçôwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4270is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4270
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
The King James renders it: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
machsor is rendered "need". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 15:8Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
Deuteronomy 15:8מַחְסֹר֔וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's thirteen uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to poverty4
- lack2
- lack of2
- and lack your1
- and poverties your1
- lack his1
- lack your1
- poverty1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחְתָּה | machtah | censer | Uses22 |
| מַחְמָד | machmad | desire | Uses13 |
| מַחְבֶּרֶת | machbereth | joining | Uses8 |
| מַחְשָׁךְ | machshak | darkness | Uses7 |
| מַחְצֵב | machtseb | hewing | Uses3 |
| מַחְלִי | Machli | Mahlite | Uses2 |
| מַחְלָפָה | machlaphah | lock | Uses2 |
| מַחְתֶּרֶת | machtereth | breaking | Uses2 |
| מַחְלֻי | machluy | suffering | Uses1 |
| מַחְמֻד | machmud | desirable | Uses1 |
| מַחְמָל | machmal | compassion | Uses1 |
| מַחְסוֹם | machsom | muzzle | Uses1 |
and 2 more on the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃4
- וּ֝מַחְסֹרֶ֗יךָ1
- וּ֝מַחְסֹֽרְךָ֗1
- מַ֝חְס֗וֹר1
- מַחְס֔וֹר1
- מַחְס֖וֹר1
- מַ֭חְסוֹר1
- מַחְס֑וֹר1
- מַחְסוֹרְךָ֖1
- מַחְסֹר֔וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Deuteronomy
one use
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
- מַחְסֹר֔וֹmachsoronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: lack his
Judges
three uses
When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
- מַחְס֔וֹרmachsornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lack of
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
- מַחְס֖וֹרmachsornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lack of
“Peace to you,” said the old man. “Let me supply everything you need. Only do not spend the night in the square.”
- מַחְסוֹרְךָ֖machsorkhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: lack your
Psalms
one use
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
- מַ֝חְס֗וֹרmachsornoun · masculine singulartagged: lack
Proverbs
eight uses
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
- וּ֝מַחְסֹֽרְךָ֗umachsorekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and lack your
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
- לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃lemachsorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to poverty
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃lemachsorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to poverty
The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
- לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃lemachsorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to poverty
He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
- מַ֭חְסוֹרmachsornoun · masculine singulartagged: poverty
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
- לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃lemachsorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to poverty
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
- וּ֝מַחְסֹרֶ֗יךָumachsoreikhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and poverties your
Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.
- מַחְס֑וֹרmachsornoun · masculine singulartagged: lack
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.