Scant (4 Occurrences)

Scant

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Bible Concordance

1 Kings 22:27 and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
(See JPS RSV)

2 Chronicles 18:26 and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
(See JPS RSV)

Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;
(See JPS)

Micah 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Thesaurus

Scant (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted
for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of ...
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Scanty (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of
words; a scanty supply of bread. 3. (a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious. ...
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Lean (22 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in
quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and ...
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Gebal (3 Occurrences)
... BC) and of Ramses XII, for its king retained the emissaries of the former 17 years
in captivity, and treated a trusted agent of the latter with scant civility. ...
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Wind (180 Occurrences)
... game. 22. (vt) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse,
so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. 23. ...
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Flowers (42 Occurrences)
... The beauty of the profusion of flowers which cover Palestine every spring receives
but scant reference in the Old Testament; Songs 2:12 is perhaps the only ...
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Poverty (25 Occurrences)
... poor," the word used is penes, which does not indicate extreme poverty, but simply
a condition of living from hand to mouth, a bare and scant livelihood, such ...
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Pilled (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Pill. 2. (a.) Stripped of hair; scant
of hair; bald. Multi-Version Concordance Pilled (2 Occurrences). ...
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Stint (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To restrain within certain limits; to bound;
to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. ...
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Scandalous (1 Occurrence)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.

2. (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

3. (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

4. (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

5. (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

6. (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

7. (n.) Scantness; scarcity.

Strong's Hebrew

6887a. tsarar -- to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or ...
... 6887, 6887a. tsarar. 6887b . to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant,
or cramped. Transliteration: tsarar Short Definition: distress. Word Origin a prim ...
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6887. tsarar -- to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or ...
... tsarar. 6887a . to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped.
Transliteration: tsarar Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-rar') Short Definition: adversary. ...
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7332. razon -- leanness, wasting, scantness
... disease (2). leanness, scant. From razah; thinness -- leanness, X scant. see
HEBREW razah. 7331, 7332. razon. 7333 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

"For they that are after the Flesh do Mind the Things of the Flesh ...
... Though some men, I say, escape the grosser pollutions of the flesh, yet they are
fettered within some narrow, scant, and but imaginary good things, they cannot ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xvii for they that.htm

Creation's Groans and the Saints' Sighs
... We heard of abundant harvests, but we soon discovered that they were all a
dream, and that there would be scant in the worker's cottage. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 14 1868/creations groans and the saints.htm

A Peasant's Son
... away in wave-like undulations far as eye can reach; marsh and heath and sand, sand
and heath and marsh; here and there a stretch of scant coarse grass, a mass ...
/.../forbes/life of st vincent de paul/chapter 1 a peasants son.htm

How to Read the Bible
... In the old Puritanic times men used to have a scant supply of other literature,
but they found a library enough in the one Book, the Bible. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 25 1879/how to read the bible.htm

Jesus and Thomas.
... Even in the scant material available for the making up of the story, we find evidence
in Thomas of strong loyalty and unwavering devotion, and in Jesus of ...
/.../miller/personal friendships of jesus/chapter viii jesus and thomas.htm

Letter xi. Dionysius to Apollophanes, Philosopher.
... For thou rememberest with what a mild and benevolent disposition I have been accustomed
to rebuke thy obstinacy in error, although with scant reason, in order ...
/.../letters of dionysius the areopagite/letter xi dionysius to apollophanes.htm

Selection
... Patrick, and that, the one which has for the most part been treated with scant notice,
namely, the years that preceded his second arrival in Ireland. ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/selection.htm

The First Experiment
... of the soul. And yet there are others who, for exactly a contrary reason,
will find scant satisfaction here. Their complaint is ...
/.../the greatest thing in the world and other addresses/the first experiment.htm

The Journey through Perea to Jerusalem
... he resumed his ministry of teaching (Matthew 19:1f.; Mark 10:1). What he did and
taught at this time is not shown at all by John, and only in scant fashion by ...
/.../rhees/the life of jesus of nazareth/v the journey through perea.htm

The Interior Castle or the Mansions by St. Teresa Ihs
... is to the point, they will understand that it does not originate from me and there
is no reason to attribute it to me, as with my scant understanding and skill ...
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Subtopics

Scant

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Stint (1 Occurrence)

Scandalous (1 Occurrence)