Bible Dictionary: Scarce

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

2. (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.

3. (superl.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.

4. (adv.) Alt. of Scarcely

Greek

3433. molis -- with difficulty
... with difficulty. Probably by variation for mogis; with difficulty -- hardly,
scarce(-ly), + with much work. see GREEK mogis. (molis) -- 6 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2637. chaser -- to lack, need, be lacking, decrease
... 1), decreased (2), depriving (1), empty (1), have...lack (1), lack (2), lacked
(2), lacking (4), lacks (2), made him a lower (1), need (1), scarce (1), want (3 ...
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3318. yatsa -- to go or come out
... forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead
out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with ...
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Library

And what did it Profit Me, that Scarce Twenty Years Old...
... Book IV Chapter XVI And what did it profit me, that scarce twenty years
old� And what did it profit me, that scarce twenty years ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xvi and what did.htm

Loyal to the Core
... years ago, and none of them have ever come back." I scarcely credit that, but I
am afraid that friends quite so faithful as Ittai are as scarce as two moons in ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 26 1880/loyal to the core.htm

The Means of Obtaining Peace Internal, is not the Delight of Sense ...
... Thou wilt scarce begin to relish the sweetness of Divine Love in Prayer, but the
Enemy with his deceitful Craftiness will be kindling in thy Heart desires of ...
/.../the spiritual guide which disentangles the soul/chap iii the means of.htm

And what Rule do You Think I Walked By? Truly a Strange One
... For nothing is more natural to infinite goodness, than to make the best
things most frequent; and only things worthless scarce. ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/53 and what rule do.htm

The Great Privilege of those that are Born of God
... Of consequence, it has scarce any intercourse with this visible world; nor any
knowledge, conception, or idea, of the things that occur therein. ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 19 the great privilege.htm

The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation.
... There is scarce a single humour in the body of a man, or of any other animal, in
which our glasses do not discover myriads of living creatures. ...
/.../sect ii the power and.htm

Feasting on the Sacrifice
... And how are we to do that if, day in and day out, and week in and week out, and
year in and year out, with some of us, there be scarce a thought turned to Him ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/feasting on the sacrifice.htm

The Preface
... For though some lineaments of it may be met with in books, yet there is scarce any
footsteps of it in practice, where alone it can be significant. ...
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The Best Friend
... 10. True friends are very scarce. ... associations. The friend in need is the
friend indeed, and such friends I say again, are scarce. ...
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Pilgrim Song
... Where He has marked the pathway. All hail the briar and thorn! Scarce seen, scarce
heard, unreckoned,. Despised, defamed, unknown,. Or heard but by our singing, ...
/.../bevan/hymns of ter steegen suso and others/pilgrim song.htm

Thesaurus

Scarce (6 Occurrences)
...Scarce (6 Occurrences). Acts 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they
the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. (KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV). ...
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Scar (3 Occurrences)

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Scarcely (14 Occurrences)

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Version
... because it was written over the writings of Ephraem, a Syrian theological author,
a practice very common in the days when writing materials were scarce and dear ...
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Gate (248 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 4:12, 15 will be understood when it is known that the dung of animals is
a common fuel throughout Palestine and Syria, where other fuel is scarce. ...
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Restrain (31 Occurrences)
... Restrain (31 Occurrences). Acts 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained
they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. ...
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Restrained (51 Occurrences)
... Restrained (51 Occurrences). Acts 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained
they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. ...
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Reaping (10 Occurrences)
... In Palestine and Syria both pulling and cutting are still practiced, the
former when the ground is stony and the spears scarce. ...
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Dung (27 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 4:12, 15 will be understood when it is known that the dung of animals is
a common fuel throughout Palestine and Syria, where other fuel is scarce. ...
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Drawer (1 Occurrence)
... Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon, the springs of water are scarce and the inhabitants
of these less favored places have always depended upon wells and cisterns for ...
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Bible Concordance

Scarce (6 Occurrences)

Acts 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
(KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Acts 27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
(KJV WBS)

Genesis 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)

Song of Songs 3:4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the chamber of her who conceived me.
(Root in WEB JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Scarce

Related Terms

Scar (3 Occurrences)

Scarcely (14 Occurrences)

Version

Gate (248 Occurrences)

Restrain (31 Occurrences)

Restrained (51 Occurrences)

Reaping (10 Occurrences)

Dung (27 Occurrences)