אֶבְיוֹןʼebyôwn
in want, needy, poor, needy, chiefly poor, needing help (Deuteronomy 15:4; Exodus 23:6; Deuteronomy 15:11; Amos 4:1; Exodus 23:11)
Pronunciation: eb-yone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H34
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 61 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 23:6 “In a lawsuit, you must not deny justice to the poor.
- Exodus 23:11 but let the land be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest whatever grows on its own. Leave the rest for wild animals to eat. The same applies to your vineyards and olive groves.
- Deuteronomy 15:4 “There should be no poor among you, for the Lord your God will greatly bless you in the land he is giving you as a special possession.
- Deuteronomy 15:7 “But if there are any poor Israelites in your towns when you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tightfisted toward them.
- Deuteronomy 15:9 Do not be mean-spirited and refuse someone a loan because the year for canceling debts is close at hand. If you refuse to make the loan and the needy person cries out to the Lord, you will be considered guilty of sin.
- Deuteronomy 15:11 There will always be some in the land who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share freely with the poor and with other Israelites in need.
See every passage
- Exodus 23:6, 23:11
- Deuteronomy 15:4, 15:7, 15:9, 15:11, 24:14
- 1 Samuel 2:8
- Esther 9:22
- Job 5:15, 24:4, 24:14, 29:16, 30:25, 31:19
- Psalms 9:18, 12:5, 35:10, 37:14, 40:17, 49:2, 69:33, 70:5, 72:4, 72:12, 72:13, 74:21, 82:4, 86:1, 107:41, 109:16, 109:22, 109:31, 112:9, 113:7, 132:15, 140:12
- Proverbs 14:31, 30:14, 31:9, 31:20
- Isaiah 14:30, 25:4, 29:19, 32:7, 41:17
- Jeremiah 2:34, 5:28, 20:13, 22:16
- Ezekiel 16:49, 18:12, 22:29
- Amos 2:6, 4:1, 5:12, 8:4, 8:6
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).