Châçêr — H2637

Definition

verb

to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen

1. to lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need
1. (Qal)
1. to lack
2. to be lacking
3. to diminish, decrease
2. (Piel) to cause to lack
3. (Hiphil) to cause to be lacking

Usually translated as

fail, lack, want, be abated, bereave, make lower, decrease

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• aporéō (G639)
• elattonéō (G1641)
• elattóō (G1642)
• endeḗs (G1729)
• kenós (G2756)
• prosdéomai (G4326)
• hysteréō (G5302)

Occurrences

Châçêr occurs 22 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (3), 1 Kings (2), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (3), Proverbs (2), Ecclesiastes (2), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Genesis 8:3 — And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated (וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ).
• Genesis 8:5 — And the waters decreased (וְחָס֔וֹר) continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
• Genesis 18:28 — Peradventure there shall lack (יַחְסְר֞וּן) five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
• Exodus 16:18 — And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack (הֶחְסִ֑יר); they gathered every man according to his eating.
• Deuteronomy 2:7 — For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked (חָסַ֖רְתָּ) nothing.
• Deuteronomy 8:9 — A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack (תֶחְסַ֥ר) any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
• Deuteronomy 15:8 — But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth (יֶחְסַ֖ר).
• 1 Kings 17:14 — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail (תֶחְסָ֑ר), until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
• 1 Kings 17:16 — And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail (חָסֵ֑ר), according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
• Nehemiah 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked (חָסֵ֑רוּ) nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
• Psalms 8:5 — For thou hast made him a little lower (וַתְּחַסְּרֵ֣הוּ) than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
• Psalms 23:1 — The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want (אֶחְסָֽר).
• Psalms 34:10 — The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want (יַחְסְר֥וּ) any good thing.
• Proverbs 13:25 — The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want (תֶּחְסָֽר).
• Proverbs 31:11 — The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need (יֶחְסָֽר) of spoil.
• Ecclesiastes 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave (וּמְחַסֵּ֤ר) my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
• Ecclesiastes 9:8 — Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack (יֶחְסָֽר) no ointment.
• Song of Songs 7:2 — Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth (יֶחְסַ֖ר) not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
• Isaiah 32:6 — For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail (יַחְסִֽיר).
• Isaiah 51:14 — The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail (יֶחְסַ֖ר).
• Jeremiah 44:18 — But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted (חָסַ֣רְנוּ) all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
• Ezekiel 4:17 — That they may want (יַחְסְר֖וּ) bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.