KJV Word of the Day:

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.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Deuteronomy 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones areiron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.