34 occurrences

'Lack' in the Bible

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"

He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלי 
B@liy 
not, without, un..., lack of, so that no, corruption
Usage: 56

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 22

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 18

מחסר מחסור 
Machcowr 
Usage: 13

עדר 
`adar 
Usage: 11

פּקד 
Paqad 
Usage: 303

קלט 
Qalat 
Usage: 1

רוּשׁ 
Ruwsh 
Usage: 24

ἐλαττονέω 
Elattoneo 
Usage: 1

ἐνδεής 
Endees 
Usage: 1

λείπω 
Leipo 
lack , be wanting , want , be destitute
Usage: 5

πάρειμι 
Pareimi 
Usage: 22

ὑστερέω 
Hustereo 
lack , be behind , want , come short , be in want , fail , come behind , be destitute ,
Usage: 13

ὑστέρημα 
Husterema 
Usage: 8

χρεία 
Chreia 
Usage: 36