---
title: מִסְכֵּנֻת — poverty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִסְכֵּנֻת (4544), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: poverty. BDB 1906: n.f. poverty, scarcity. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4544.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [מ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1502-6.md)‎ / מִסְכֵּנֻת‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# מִסְכֵּנֻת

<!-- .meta -->
«מִסְכֵּנֻת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **poverty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4544 · **BDB:** מִסְכֵּנֻת

### Glosses

scarcity (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

poverty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4544/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. poverty, scarcity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4544/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. poverty, scarcity, Dt 8:9.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִסְכֵּנֻת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4544/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Deuteronomy 8:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.8.9/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אֶ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹ֤א בְמִסְכֵּנֻת֙ תֹּֽאכַל־בָּ֣הּ לֶ֔חֶם לֹֽא־תֶחְסַ֥ר כֹּ֖ל בָּ֑הּ אֶ֚רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲבָנֶ֣יהָ בַרְזֶ֔ל וּמֵהֲרָרֶ֖יהָ תַּחְצֹ֥ב נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* a.land which not in scarcity you.will.eat in it food not you.will.lack anything in it a.land which stones its \[are\].iron and from hills its you.will.dig copper

*JPS 1917:* a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [מִסְכְּנוֹת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4543.md)
- next →: [מַסֶּכֶת](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4545.md)
- ↑ back to [מ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1502-6.md)