- Original: מוּך - Transliteration: Muwk - Phonetic: mook - Definition: 1. (Qal) to be low, grow poor, be depressed, be poor - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1159 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to become thin that is (figuratively) be impoverished: - be (waxen) poor (-er). Total KJV Occurrences: 5 • poor, 4 Leviticus 25:25; Leviticus 25:35; Leviticus 25:39; Leviticus 25:47 • poorer, 1 Leviticus 27:8