Hebrew adjective · H4542
מִסְכֵּן
miskenmis-kane'
poor
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: miçkên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4542is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4542
indigent
The King James renders it: poor (man).
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
misken is rendered "poor". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Ecclesiastes 4:13מִסְכֵּ֖ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- poor2
- the poor2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִסְפָּר | mispar | number | Uses134 |
| מִסְגֶּרֶת | misgereth | perimeter | Uses17 |
| מִסְפֵּד | misped | mourning | Uses16 |
| מִסְתָּר | mistar | hiding | Uses10 |
| מִסְכְּנָה | miskenah | storage | Uses7 |
| מִסְפּוֹא | mispo | fodder | Uses5 |
| מִסְפַּחַת | mispachath | scab | Uses3 |
| מִסְפָּחָה | mispachah | veil | Uses2 |
| מִסְחָר | mischar | merchandise | Uses1 |
| מִסְעָד | misad | support | Uses1 |
| מִסְתּוֹר | mistor | shelter | Uses1 |
| מִסְכֵּנֻת | miskenuth | poverty | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הַמִּסְכֵּ֖ן1
- הַמִּסְכֵּן֙1
- מִסְכֵּ֖ן1
- מִסְכֵּן֙1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular2HAamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular2HTd/Aamsa
Ecclesiastes
four uses
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- מִסְכֵּ֖ןmiskenadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
- מִסְכֵּן֙miskenadjective · masculine singulartagged: poor
- הַמִּסְכֵּ֖ןhamiskenthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the poor
And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
- הַמִּסְכֵּן֙hamiskenthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the poor
The letters
Gematria 170· 820 mispar gadol
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 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.