ἔνδεια
want, lack
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἔνδεια appears in the Greek Septuagint — 14 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 ἔνδεια The Lord send upon you lack, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed you, and until he shall have consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken me.
- Deuteronomy 28:57 ἔνδεια and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the lack of all things, secretly in your straitness, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.
- Job 30:3 ἔνδεια One is childless in lack and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
- Proverbs 6:11 ἔνδεια Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
- Proverbs 6:11 ἔνδεια Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
- Proverbs 6:32 ἔνδεια But the adulterer through lack of sense procures destruction to his soul.
- Proverbs 10:21 ἔνδεια The lips of the righteous know sublime truths: but the foolish die in lack.
- Proverbs 14:23 ἔνδεια With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in lack.
- Proverbs 17:14 ἔνδεια Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.
- Proverbs 24:34 ἔνδεια But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.
- Isaiah 25:4 ἔνδεια For you have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: you shall deliver them from wicked men: you have been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.
- Ezekiel 4:16 ἔνδεια And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in lack; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:
- Ezekiel 12:19 ἔνδεια And you shall say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly.
- Amos 4:6 ἔνδεια And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you⌃ returned not to me, says the Lord.
About this word
About this word
ἔνδεια (éndeia), “want, lack,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 14 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →