Lack vs. Numbers

(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

(transitive) To be without, to need, to require.

Example: ‘My life lacks excitement.’;

(intransitive) To be short (of or for something).

Example: ‘He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.’;

To be in want.

(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.

Example: ‘She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.’; ‘Let his lack of years be no impediment.’;

To blame; to find fault with.

Example: ‘Love them and lakke them not.’;

To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

Example: ‘If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.’;

To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

Example: ‘What hour now?I think it lacks of twelve.’; ‘Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.’;

To be in want.

Example: ‘The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.’;

Exclamation of regret or surprise.

the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;

Example: ‘there is a serious lack of insight into the problem’; ‘water is the critical deficiency in desert regions’; ‘for want of a nail the shoe was lost’;

be without;

Example: ‘This soup lacks salt’; ‘There is something missing in my jewellery box!’;

pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt

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