Word

קָצֵר

qâtsêr · H7116 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

short-tempered, impatient

Literally: short (of spirit, nostrils); hence: state in which humans are impatient and become angry easily

Examples
Proverbs 14:17 A quick-tempered person acts foolishly, And a person of evil devices is hated.
Proverbs 14:29 One who is slow to anger has great understanding; But one who is quick-tempered exalts foolishness.
short-lived

Literally: short of days; hence: state in which a person's life lasts for a relatively short time

Examples
Job 14:1 “Man, who is born of woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
powerless

Literally: short of hand; hence: state in which humans lack the power to perform a certain event

Examples
2 Kings 19:26 ‘Therefore their inhabitants were powerless, They were shattered and put to shame. They were like the vegetation of the field and the green grass, Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.
Isaiah 37:27 “Therefore their inhabitants were powerless, They were shattered and put to shame; They were like the vegetation of the field and the green grass, Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אַףanger, nose 1
רוּחַspirit, wind 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
רוּםto be high, to raise, to lift up 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 2 groups

יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 2
אָדָםhuman, humankind, human being(s) 1

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

קָטָן qâṭân · H6996 · small, weak, young: The senses genuinely overlap around 'small' and brief duration/quantity, supporting near-synonymy rather than mere correlation.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Angry002001002002: The word means short-tempered or impatient, directly illustrated by the quick-tempered person who acts foolishly (Proverbs 14:17) and the contrast between one slow to anger and one who is quick-tempered (Proverbs 14:29).
Non-Endure002002003002: The same sense of a short, failing state is illustrated by the inhabitants likened to grass that is scorched before it has grown, i.e., short-lived (2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 37:27) and man being "short-lived and full of turmoil" (Job 14:1).
Weak002001001069: The same citations describing inhabitants as powerless and shattered like scorched grass directly illustrate this sense of frailty (2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 37:27).

Word family 4 words

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

קָצַר qâtsar · H7114 · to be short, to be impatient · 49×קָצִיר qâtsîyr · H7105 · harvest, crops · 54×קָצֵרqâtsêr · H7116קֹצֶר qôtser · H7115 · to be dispirited · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7116. qatser [קָצֵר] adjective short; — in phrase קִצְרֵייָֿד 2Ki 19:26 short of hand,…

H7116. qatser
[קָצֵר] adjective short; — in phrase קִצְרֵייָֿד 2Ki 19:26 short of hand, feeble, = Isa 37:27; figurative אַמַּיִם קְצַרֿ Pro 14:7 = impatient, so רוּחַ קְצַּר Pro 14:29 (opposed to אַמַּיִם אֶרֶח); of time יָמִים קְצַר Job 14:1 short-lived.

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Weak2 occurrences Angry2 occurrences Non-Endure1 occurrence

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