Monday, March 30, 2015

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.


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