What Does “Needy” Mean in the Bible?
Poor, in need of help.
A detail
- In the Bible: Tobit advises sharing bread with the hungry and the needy. Amos rebukes those who oppress the needy.
Where it appears in the Bible
Tobit 4:16; Amos 8:4; Acts 17:25
What the Bible says
Tobit 4:16
Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
Acts 17:25
Neither is he served with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing; seeing it is he who giveth to all life, and breath, and all things:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “menesteroso”