KJV dictionary & concordance
Scarcity or lack.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 8:9
Complete exact-word concordance
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
A lande wherein thou shalt eate bread without scarcenes, thou shalt not lacke any thing in it: a lande whose stones are yron, and out of whose hils thou mayest digge brasse.
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1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
Scarcity.
SCARCITY, noun 1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women. Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. 2. Rareness; infrequency. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet.
