Lexicon misken: poor Original Word: מִסְכֵּןPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: misken Phonetic Spelling: (mis-kane') Short Definition: poor NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionpoor NASB Translationpoor (3), poor man (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מִסְכֵּן adjective poor, only Ecclesiastes (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id.;  PS 2632; Arabic  ; Ethiopic  Di 382; √ dubious; usually derived from III. סכן q. v.; perhaps loan-word; according to Jen ZA iv (1889), 271 f Zim ib. vii (1892), 353 = Assyrian muškênu, beggar, needy one); — always absolute ׳מ: — וְחָכָם ׳יֶלֶד מ Ecclesiastes 4:13 (opposed to מֶלֶח זֶקֵן וּכְסִיל); חָכָם ׳אִישׁ מ Ecclesiastes 9:15, ׳הָאִישׁ הַמּ Ecclesiastes 9:15; as substantive ׳הַמּ Ecclesiastes 9:16 the poor man. |
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