Words the Bible translates as poverty
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- oniעֳנִיaffliction: the hard, lowered condition of someone weighed down by suffering, oppression, or want
- ptōcheiaπτωχείαpovertynot studied yet
- husterēmaὑστέρημαa lack: something still missing from a required or expected whole, a shortfall waiting to be made up
- maḥsorמַחְסוֹרwhat a person lacks: a need waiting to be supplied, or the poverty that going short settles into
- reshרֵישׁpoverty: having no means to live on. It names the condition itself, not the person who is poor.
- husterēsisὑστέρησιςpovertynot studied yet
- ḥeserחֶסֶרpovertynot studied yet
- shephelשֵׁפֶלpovertynot studied yet
- miskenutמִסְכֵּנֻתpovertynot studied yet
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