STRONGS NUMBER H34


Word Summary
ebyon: in want, needy, poor
Original Word: אֶבְיוֹן
Transliteration: ebyon
Phonetic Spelling: (eb-yone')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: in want, needy, poor
Meaning: in want, needy, poor
Strong's Concordance
beggar, needy, poor man

From 'abah, in the sense of want (especially in feeling); destitute -- beggar, needy, poor (man).

see HEBREW 'abah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H34. ebyon

אֶבְיוֺןadjective in want, needy, poor, — so, always absolute, Deuteronomy 15:4 40t; אֶבְיֹנְךָExodus 23:6; Deuteronomy 15:11; אֶבְיוֺנִיםAmos 4:1 14t.; אֶבְיוֺנֵי (אֶבְיֹנֵי)Exodus 23:11; Isaiah 29:19; אֶבְיוֺנֶיהָPsalm 132:15—; (Hexateuch only J E D; mostly poetry, 23 t. Psalms) needy, chiefly poor (in material things); as adjective Deuteronomy 15:7 (twice in verse); 15:9; 24:14; Psalm 109:16 (both "" עָנִי‎); elsewhere substantive; 49:3 ("" עָשִׁיר‎); Deuteronomy 15:4, 11; subject to oppression & abuse Amos 2:6; 5:12 (both "" צַדִּיק‎) 4:1; 8:6 (all "" דַּל‎) Isaiah 32:7; Amos 8:4; Ezekiel 16:49; 18:12; 22:29; Psalm 37:14; Job 24:4, 14; Proverbs 30:14 — compare Psalm 109:16 above — (all "" עָנִי‎) Jeremiah 5:28 ("" יָתוֺם‎) 2:34; cared for by good Job 29:16; 30:25 ("" קְשֵׁהיֿוֺם‎) 31:19; Psalm 112:9; Esther 9:22; Proverbs 14:31 ("" דַּל‎) 31:20; Jeremiah 22:16 ("" עָנִי‎); care of them enjoined, negatively Exodus 23:6; — compare Deuteronomy 24:14 above — positively Exodus 23:11; Deuteronomy 15:11; Proverbs 31:9 (both "" עָנִי‎) — compare Deuteronomy 15:7 (twice in verse); 15:9 above — Psalm 82:4 ("" דַּל‎); cared for by God Jeremiah 20:13; Psalm 107:41; 132:15; Job 5:15; 1 Samuel 2:8 = Psalm 113:7; Isaiah 14:30 (all "" דַּל‎) Psalm 35:10; 140:13 (both "" עָנִי‎), compare Davidic king 72:12 ("" עָנִי‎) = 72:4 אֶבְ ׳בְּנֵי‎ ("" id.), 72:13 (twice in verse); ("" דַּל‎); needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God 9:19; 12:6; Psalm 40:18 = Psalm 70:6; 74:21; 86:1; 109:22; Isaiah 29:19; 41:17 (all "" עָנִי‎) 25:4 ("" דַּל‎) Psalm 69:34; 109:31.