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חָסֵר

châçêr · H2638 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. lacking, short of

    State in which humans lack something that they are supposed to have

    Examples

    1 Samuel 21:15 “Do I lack insane people, that you have brought this one to behave like an insane person in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?”

    2 Samuel 3:29 “May it turn upon the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be eliminated from the house of Joab someone who suffers a discharge, or has leprosy, or holds the spindle, or falls by the sword, or lacks bread.”

    Proverbs 12:9 Better is one who is lightly esteemed and has a servant, Than one who honors himself and lacks bread.

  2. lacking

    State in which humans lack a particular quality that they are supposed to have

    Examples

    Proverbs 6:32 One who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself commits it.

    Proverbs 7:7 And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,

    Proverbs 9:4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks understanding she says,

How it’s used In 9 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

13 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

7 occurrences in 7 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
רֵיק rêyq · H7386 · empty, to be emptied out, to be stripped (of one's possession)
Both lexemes denote states of lacking or being without — חָסֵר (châçêr, H2638) covers destitution, lack, and want, while רֵיק (rêyq, H7386) covers being emptied or empty — describing overlapping senses of absence or non-possession.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Non-Possess002003002018
The word denotes lacking or being in need of something, describing destitution or want.
Non-Engage002003003012
The word can denote a deficiency or failure to have what is needed, matching the sense of want and lack carried by the closely related form of this root.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָסֵר châçêr · H2637 · to lack, to be lacking, to fail · 22×חָסֵרchâçêr · H2638מַחְסוֹר machçôwr · H4270 · lack, scarcity, need · 13×חֹסֶר chôçer · H2640 · lack · 3×חֶסֶר cheçer · H2639 · lack, want, shortage · 2×חַסִּיר chaççîyr · H2627 · wanting · 1×חֶסְרוֹן cheçrôwn · H2642 · lack, what is lacking · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2638. chaser חָסֵר adjective needy, lacking, in want of — ׳ח absolute Ecc 6:2; construct…
H2638. chaser
חָסֵר adjective needy, lacking, in want of — ׳ח absolute Ecc 6:2; construct חֲסַר 1 Samuel 21:16 1Sa 21:13t.; — needy, in want of ׳ח אני משׁגעים 1 Samuel 21:16 am I in want of madmen? 2Sa 3:29 in need of bread, so Pro 12:9; usually חֲסַרלֵֿב lacking understanding, sense Pro 6:32; Pro 7:7; Pro 9:4, Pro 9:16; Pro 10:13; Pro 11:12; Pro 12:11; Pro 15:21; ח לֵֿב׳אָדָם Pro 17:18; Pro 24:30; ח ׳נָּגִיד תְּבוּנוֺת Pro 28:16; וג מִכֹּל ׳לְנַפְשׁוֺ חָסֵר אֵינֶנּוּ Ecc 6:2 neither is he lacking for his soul in aught of (מן particle) all that he desireth.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Non-Possess4 occurrencesNon-Engage13 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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