71 occurrences in 12 translations

'Lacking' in the Bible

And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

Verse ConceptsFive Months And MoreWaters Subsiding

and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

Verse ConceptsMonth 10VisibilityWaters SubsidingMonths

peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, 'I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.'

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingMineralsOfferingsSaltSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiMeat offerings

Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Verse ConceptsMaking VowsBlemished CreaturesRegulating SacrificesFree Will

and they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who were under our hand, and there is not one man of us lacking.

Verse ConceptsCounting SoldiersAll PeopleMissing SomeoneBattleBeing Lost

[to] a land where you may eat food in it {without scarcity}; you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones [are] iron and from its mountains you can mine copper.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Description OfBrass

and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismActing In SecretBirth

The five men left and came to Laish. They saw that the people who were there were living securely, in the same way as the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. They were far from the Sidonians, having no alliance with anyone.

Verse ConceptsSearchingSecurityMannersMagistratesQuietnessFar From HereMen Of PeaceRelationships And Dating

When you get there, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has handed it over to you. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

Verse ConceptsSubtracting From PeopleBereavementNo One To Be FoundWhy Does This Happen?

Am I lacking madmen that you bring me this one to act like a madman around me? Shall this one come into my house?"

Verse ConceptsMadmen

And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.

Verse ConceptsLackNo LossMissing SomeoneBeing Lost

And Joab hath turned back from after Abner, and gathereth all the people, and there are lacking of the servants of David nineteen men, and Asahel;

Verse ConceptsNineteen

it doth stay on the head of Joab, and on all the house of his father, and there is not cut off from the house of Joab one having an issue, and leprous, and laying hold on a staff, and falling by a sword, and lacking bread.'

Verse ConceptsLeprosyBodyLackWeakness, PhysicalNo FoodDischargesWithout Strength

And David riseth, and all the people who are with him, and they pass over the Jordan, till the light of the morning, till one hath not been lacking who hath not passed over the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDawnDaybreakUntil Daybreak

And these officers have sustained king Solomon and every one drawing near unto the table of king Solomon, each in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

And Pharaoh saith to him, 'But, what art thou lacking with me, that lo, thou art seeking to go unto thine own land?' and he saith, 'Nay, but thou dost certainly send me away.'

Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, The pitcher of meal is not consumed, and the dish of oil is not lacking, till the day of Jehovah's giving a shower on the face of the ground.'

Verse ConceptsElijah, Prophecies OfHelpfulnessProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtBarrelsPlenty For The PoorWeedpot

and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests, call ye unto me; let not a man be lacking, for a great sacrifice I have for Baal; every one who is lacking -- he doth not live;' and Jehu hath done it in subtilty, in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

Verse ConceptsFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other Gods

while their inhabitants, lacking strength, stand dismayed and confused. They were like vegetation out in the fields, and like green herbs just as grass that grows on a housetop dries out before it can grow.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

"Let whoever is naive, turn in here." To anyone lacking sense, she says,

Verse ConceptsWisdom And Guidance

"Whoever is naive, turn in here!" And to anyone lacking sense, she says,

Wisdom characterizes the speech of the discerning, but the rod is for the backs of those lacking discernment.

Verse ConceptsBackParental DisciplineLipsProverbsMan's WisdomDiscernment

When there are many words, transgression and offense are unavoidable,But he who controls his lips and keeps thoughtful silence is wise.

Verse ConceptsGossipProverbsSilenceSpeech, Power And Significance OfTongueWordsVain TalkHow Silence Is WiseToo Many WordsThe TongueThe Power Of WordsMaking Mistakes

It is better to be lowly and a servant {to someone} than self-glorifying and lacking food.

Verse ConceptsPretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

Folly is joy to one lacking heart, And a man of intelligence directeth his going.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfDestitutesWisdom, Human Importance

A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.

Verse ConceptsProfitsUnjust GainHow To Live LongOppressorsKings And WisdomCovetousness

What is crooked cannot be straightened;what is lacking cannot be counted.

Verse ConceptsCrookednessUncountableTwisted WaysStraightening

And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, 'He is a fool.'

Verse ConceptsLifestylesAspects Of People Made Known

Search and read the scroll of the Lord:Not one of them will be missing,none will be lacking its mate,because He has ordered it by my mouth,and He will gather them by His Spirit.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritUnity, Of God's PeopleStudentsBible, Names OfThe Holy Spirit In CreationNothing MissingOld Testament Claims InspirationMissing SomeoneReading The BibleSoulmatesgatheringseekinghomecoming

The prisoner is soon to be set free;he will not die and go to the Pit,and his food will not be lacking.

Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others

And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

Verse ConceptsHuntingDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Paid Attention To ThemMissing Someoneshunning

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdFeeding The FlockAll PeopleThose Not FearingMissing Someone

Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

Verse ConceptsDivine BalancesWeighingShortagesWeighing The Immaterialbalanceweight

Her prophets are reckless and treacherous men;Her priests have profaned the sanctuary;They have done violence to the law [by pretending their word is God’s word].

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSanctuaryTreacheryCorrupt PriestsPollutionsWicked ProphetsLack Of HolinessUnfaithful

Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardGod, Righteousness OfMorningRegretUnceasingGod Always WorkingGod Doing RightDoing RightEvery MorningAbsence Of RegretInjustice

The young man *said to Him, “All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?”

Verse ConceptsI Keep The CommandmentsMan's Needs

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

Verse ConceptsExternalsEntering The MouthBeing Without UnderstandingDefilementprepping

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.”

Verse ConceptsWalking In DarknessSpiritual NightPeople StumblingSpiritual Darkness

and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

Verse ConceptsPeople Have Honour

Be sober-minded [be sensible, wake up from your spiritual stupor] as you ought, and stop sinning; for some [of you] have no knowledge of God [you are disgracefully ignorant of Him, and ignore His truths]. I say this to your shame.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forSin, Avoidance OfWakefulnessRighteousnessIgnorance of GodMoving OnKnowing Godignoranceawakeningshunning

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

Verse ConceptsPeople Providing

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofFellowship, In Christian ServiceLackMissionary WorkPeople ProvidingShortages

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

Verse ConceptsLackLove, For One AnotherGenerosity, Used TowardsRisking

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

Verse ConceptsAttorneyLawyersMissionaries, Support ForApollosPeople ProvidingDoing Your Best

If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day,

Verse ConceptsNaked In PovertyHelp In ShortageFeeding The PoorSibling Love

For the man in whom they are lacking is blind and cannot see distant objects, in that he has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his old sins.

Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesLackPast, TheDefective VisionForgetting ThingsBeing Cleansed From SinThe Pastcleansingpastpeter

Bible Theasaurus

Deficient (10 instances)
Incomplete (4 instances)
Lacking (71 instances)
Missing (27 instances)
Wanting (60 instances)

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