Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2639: חֶסֶר

cheçer · pronounced kheh'-ler · “poverty”

Definition

lack; hence, destitution

KJV translates it as: poverty, want.

Word origin: from H2637 (חָסֵר);

Extended definition

poverty, want

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2639 is translated

  • poverty ×2

Bible verses with H2639 (cheçer)

Cheçer appears in 2 verses.

  • Job 30:3

    For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

  • Proverbs 28:22

    He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.