Scarce
Bible Usage:
- scarce used 3 times.
- scarcely used twice.
- scarceness used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 27:30
- Last Reference: Acts 27:7
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: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G3433 Used 2 times
SCARCE, adjective
1. Not plentiful or abundant; being in small quantity in proportion to the demand. We say, water is scarce wheat, rye, barley is scarce money is scarce when the quantity is not fully adequate to the demand.
2. Being few in number and scattered; rare; uncommon. Good horses are scarce
The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.
SCARCELY, adverb
1. Hardly; scantly.
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
2. Hardly; with difficulty.
Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
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.