Strong's #2489: chelka' (pronounced khay-lek-aw')

or chelkah {khay-lek-aw'}; apparently from an unused root probably meaning to be dark or (figuratively) unhappy; a wretch, i.e. unfortunate:--poor.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chêlekâ' / chêlekâh

1) hapless, poor, unfortunate person

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: apparently from an unused root probably meaning to be dark or (figuratively) unhappy

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Psalms 10:8: "the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor."
Psalms 10:10: "He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones."
Psalms 10:14: "and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art"