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Spent
See on cost, Luk 14:28.
In that land
Want is characteristic of the “far country.” The prodigal feels the evil of his environment. “He (with a shade of emphasis) began to be in want.”
To be in want (ὑστερεῖσθαι)
From ὕστερος, behind. Compare our phrase of one in straitened circumstances, to fall behind.