H5607b H5607b
sufficiency/plenty—adequate supply
This noun designates sufficiency, plenty, or adequate supply. Zophar uses it in describing the wicked person's fate, declaring that in the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will seize him. The irony is pointed—at the very moment when the wicked has everything he needs, trouble arrives. The term emphasizes having reached a state of adequate provision or abundance, making the reversal more dramatic.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Noun meaning sufficiency or plenty, used of the wicked person's prosperity (Job 20:22). Zophar describes the ironic reversal: at the height of abundance, disaster strikes. The term emphasizes adequate provision or surplus. Spanish 'suficiencia' directly translates the concept. The passage illustrates wisdom literature's theme that wicked prosperity is illusory and temporary. 1×
AR["كِفَايَتِهِ"]·ben["তার-পর্যাপ্ততার"]·DE["[שפקו]"]·EN["his-sufficiency"]·FR["son-שפקו-lui"]·heb["שפקו"]·HI["उसकी-प्रचुरता-की"]·ID["kecukupannya"]·IT["suo-sufficiency-suo"]·jav["kecoranipun"]·KO["그의-충분이"]·PT["sua-suficiência"]·RU["достатка-своего"]·ES["su-suficiencia"]·SW["utoshelevu-wake"]·TR["bolluk"]·urd["کفایت-اُس-کی"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שֵׂ֫פֶק] n.[m.] sufficiency, plenty;—sf. שִׂפְקוֹ Jb 20:22 (Baer Gi; ס׳ van d. H.; opp. צרר).