1) in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person 2) subject to oppression and abuse 3) needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God 4) general reference to lowest class
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H34 — אֶבְיוֹן
ev.yon · needy · Hebrew/Aramaic
55 tagged verse occurrences
Exodus 23:6 · אֶבְיֹנְךָ֖“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.Exodus 23:11 · אֶבְיֹנֵ֣יbut the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.Deuteronomy 15:4 · אֶבְי֑וֹןHowever there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)Deuteronomy 15:7 · אֶבְי֜וֹן · הָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;Deuteronomy 15:9 · הָֽאֶבְי֔וֹןBeware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;” and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.Deuteronomy 15:11 · אֶבְי֖וֹן · וּלְאֶבְיֹנְךָ֖For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.Deuteronomy 24:14 · וְאֶבְי֑וֹןYou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:1 Samuel 2:8 · אֶבְי֔וֹןHe raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.Esther 9:22 · לָֽאֶבְיוֹנִֽים׃as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.Job 5:15 · אֶבְיֽוֹן׃But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.Job 24:4 · אֶבְיוֹנִ֣יםThey turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.Job 24:14 · וְאֶבְי֑וֹןThe murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.Job 29:16 · לָֽאֶבְיוֹנִ֑יםI was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.Job 30:25 · לָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?Job 31:19 · לָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;Psalm 9:18 · אֶבְי֑וֹןFor the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.Psalm 12:5 · אֶבְי֫וֹנִ֥ים“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”Psalm 35:10 · וְ֝אֶבְי֗וֹןAll my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”Psalm 37:14 · וְאֶבְי֑וֹןThe wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.Psalm 40:17 · וְאֶבְיוֹן֮But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.Psalm 49:2 · וְאֶבְיֽוֹן׃both low and high, rich and poor together.Psalm 69:33 · אֶבְיוֹנִ֣יםFor Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.Psalm 70:5 · וְאֶבְיוֹן֮But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.Psalm 72:4 · אֶבְי֑וֹןHe will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.Psalm 72:12 · אֶבְי֣וֹןFor he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.Psalm 72:13 · וְאֶבְי֑וֹן · אֶבְיוֹנִ֣יםHe will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.Psalm 74:21 · וְ֝אֶבְי֗וֹןDon’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.Psalm 82:4 · וְאֶבְי֑וֹןRescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”Psalm 86:1 · וְאֶבְי֣וֹןA Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.Psalm 107:41 · אֶבְי֣וֹןYet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.Psalm 109:16 · וְ֭אֶבְיוֹןbecause he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.Psalm 109:22 · וְאֶבְי֣וֹןfor I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.Psalm 109:31 · אֶבְי֑וֹןFor he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.Psalm 112:9 · לָאֶבְיוֹנִ֗יםHe has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.Psalm 113:7 · אֶבְיֽוֹן׃He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;Psalm 132:15 · אֶ֝בְיוֹנֶ֗יהָI will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.Psalm 140:12 · אֶבְיֹנִֽים׃I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.Proverbs 14:31 · אֶבְיֽוֹן׃He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.Proverbs 30:14 · וְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗יםThere is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.Proverbs 31:9 · וְאֶבְיֽוֹן׃ פOpen your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”Proverbs 31:20 · לָֽאֶבְיֽוֹן׃She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.Isaiah 14:30 · וְאֶבְיוֹנִ֖יםThe firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.Isaiah 25:4 · לָאֶבְי֖וֹןFor you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.Isaiah 29:19 · וְאֶבְיוֹנֵ֣יThe humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 32:7 · אֶבְי֖וֹןThe ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.Isaiah 41:17 · וְהָאֶבְיוֹנִ֜יםThe poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.Jeremiah 2:34 · אֶבְיוֹנִ֖יםAlso the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.Jeremiah 5:28 · אֶבְיוֹנִ֖יםThey have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.Jeremiah 20:13 · אֶבְי֖וֹןSing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.Jeremiah 22:16 · וְאֶבְי֖וֹןHe judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.Amos 2:6 · וְאֶבְי֖וֹןThus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;Amos 4:1 · אֶבְיוֹנִ֑יםListen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”Amos 5:12 · וְאֶבְיוֹנִ֖יםFor I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins—you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.Amos 8:4 · אֶבְי֑וֹןHear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,Amos 8:6 · וְאֶבְי֖וֹןthat we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”