Strong's Definition
from 14, in the sense of want (especially in feeling); destitute
KJV Usage: beggar, needy, poor (man)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אֶבְיוֹן (ev.yon) — needy. 1) in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person 2) subject to oppression and abuse 3) needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God 4) general reference to lowest class
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
adj · אבה
Poor | ≈ דַּל · עָנִי | ≠ עָשִׁיר
poor, needy = person who does not have the means to provide for himself/herself, economically or otherwise, and therefore depends on help from other people and God
EXO 23:6 · EXO 23:11 · DEU 15:4 · DEU 15:7 · DEU 15:7 · DEU 15:9 · DEU 15:11 · DEU 15:11 · DEU 24:14 · 1SA 2:8 · EST 9:22 · JOB 5:15 · JOB 24:4 · JOB 24:14 · JOB 29:16 · JOB 30:25 · JOB 31:19 · PSA 9:19 · PSA 12:6 · PSA 35:10 · PSA 37:14 · PSA 40:18 · PSA 49:3 · PSA 69:34 · PSA 70:6 · PSA 72:4 · PSA 72:12 · PSA 72:13 · PSA 72:13 · PSA 74:21 · PSA 82:4 · PSA 86:1 · PSA 107:41 · PSA 109:16 · PSA 109:22 · PSA 109:31 · PSA 112:9 · PSA 113:7 · PSA 132:15 · PSA 140:13 · PRO 14:31 · PRO 30:14 · PRO 31:9 · PRO 31:20 · ISA 14:30 · ISA 25:4 · ISA 29:19 · ISA 32:7 · ISA 41:17 · JER 2:34 · JER 5:28 · JER 20:13 · JER 22:16 · EZK 16:49 · EZK 18:12 · EZK 22:29 · AMO 2:6 · AMO 4:1 · AMO 5:12 · AMO 8:4 · AMO 8:6
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אֶבְיוֹן adj. in want, needy, poor,—so, alw. abs., Dt 15:4 + 40 t.; אֶבְיֹנְךָ Ex 23:6 Dt 15:11; אֶבְיוֹנִים Am 4:1 + 14 t.; אֶבְיוֹנֵי (אֶבְיֹנֵי) Ex 23:11 Is 29:19; אֶבְיוֹנֶיהָ ψ 132:15—(Hex. only JED; mostly poet., 23 t. ψ) needy, chiefly poor (in material things); as adj. Dt 15:7, 7, 9; 24:14 ψ 109:16 (both ∥ עָנִי); elsewhere subst.; ψ 49:3 (∥ עָשִׁיר); Dt 15:4, 11; subj. to oppression & abuse Am 2:6 5:12 (both ∥ צַדִּיק) 4:1 8:6 (all ∥ דַּל) Is 32:7; Am 8:4 Ez 16:49 18:12 22:29 ψ 37:14 Jb 24:4, 14 Pr 30:14—cf. ψ 109:16 supr.—(all ∥ עָנִי) Je 5:28 (∥ יָתוֹם) 2:34; cared for by good Jb 29:16 30:25 (∥ קְשֵׁה־יוֹם) 31:19 ψ 112:9 Est 9:22; Pr 14:31 (∥ דָּל) 31:20 Je 22:16 (∥ עָנִי); care of them enjoined, negatively Ex 23:6;—cf. Dt 24:14 supr.—positively Ex 23:11 Dt 15:11 Pr 31:9 (both ∥ עָנִי)—cf. Dt 15:7, 7, 9 supr.—ψ 82:4 (∥ דַל); cared for by God Je 20:13 ψ 107:41 132:15 Jb 5:15; I S 2:8 = ψ 113:7 Is 14:30 (all ∥ דַּל) ψ 35:10 140:13 (both ∥ עָנִי), cf. Davidic king ψ 72:12 (∥ עָנִי) = v 4 בְנֵי אֶבְ׳ (∥ id.), v 13, 13 (∥ דַּל); needing help, deliverance from trouble, esp. as delivered by God ψ 9:19 12:6 40:18 = 70:6 74:21 86:1 109:22 Is 29:19 41:17 (all ∥ עָנִי) Is 25:4 (∥ דַּל) ψ 69:34 109:31. done