# H4270 מַחְסוֹר

מַחְסוֹר (machçôwr), Strong’s H4270: deficiency; hence, impoverishment KJV: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.. Occurs 13 times.

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*machçôwr* — deficiency; hence, impoverishment

KJV: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.

Derived from [חָסֵר châçêr](https://besorah.bible/word/H2637) (to lack)

Occurs 13 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַחְסוֹר, מַחְסֹר n.[m.] need, thing needed, poverty
- 1 need = thing needed
- 2 lack, want
- 3 in gen., need, poverty

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=8) — but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
- [Judges 18:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=10) — When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a…
- [Judges 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=19) — Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and…
- [Judges 19:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=20) — The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
- [Psalms 34:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/34?v=10) — Oh fear the LORD, you his holy ones, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
- [Proverbs 6:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/6?v=11) — so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
- [Proverbs 11:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/11?v=24) — There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains…
- [Proverbs 14:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/14?v=23) — In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
- [Proverbs 21:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=5) — The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
- [Proverbs 21:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=17) — He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.