KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To be without or in need of something. Sense 2: As a noun, want, shortage, or absence.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 18:28
Complete exact-word concordance
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Peraduenture there shall lacke fiue of the fiftie righteous: wilt thou destroy all the citie for lacke of fiue? And he said, If I find there fourtie and fiue, I will not destroy it.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Want; destitution; need; failure.
To be in want or to be wanting.
To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.
