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Gematria of Poverty

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “poverty” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 22 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
22
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “poverty”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

מַחְסוֹרmachçôwr×13 in the TanakhH4270

deficiency; hence, impoverishment

Standard 314 →Gadol 314Katan 26Siduri (ordinal) 62Atbash 161Perati 45,300Milui 1,141

First appearance ·Deuteronomy 15:8דברים טו:חמַחְסֹרוֹ

See all 5 occurrences of the spelling מחסור →

רֵישׁrêysh×7 in the TanakhH7389

poverty

Standard 510 →Gadol 510Katan 6Siduri (ordinal) 51Atbash 45Perati 130,100Milui 890

First appearance ·Proverbs 6:11משלי ו:יארֵאשֶׁךָ

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling ריש →

חֶסֶרcheçer×2 in the TanakhH2639

lack; hence, destitution

Standard 268 →Gadol 268Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 43Atbash 71Perati 43,664Milui 1,048

First appearance ·Proverbs 28:22משלי כח:כבחֶסֶר

See all 15 occurrences of the spelling חסר →

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What is the gematria of poverty?

The Tanakh renders “poverty” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: מחסור = 314, ריש = 510 and חסר = 268.

How do you say poverty in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “poverty”; the most frequent are מחסור (machçôwr), 13 times; ריש (rêysh), 7 times; חסר (cheçer), 2 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.