Scarceness
Bible Usage:
- scarce used 3 times.
- scarcely used twice.
- scarceness used once.
- Bible Reference: Deuteronomy 8:9
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H4544 Used 1 time
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Scarceness
SCARCENESS,
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.