חָסֵר chaser

Hebrew word for “to lack” · Strong’s H2637 · used 23 times in 23 verses

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Meaning

1) to lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chaser in context, with how often each is used:

• lacking 5
• lack 3
• have lacked 2
• will lack 2
• will be lacking 2
• decreased 1
• decreasing 1
• will lack ! 1
• had a lack 1
• have made lack 1
• lacks 1
• depriving 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 8 (2), 1 Kings 17 (2), Genesis 18 (1), Exodus 16 (1), Deuteronomy 2 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), Deuteronomy 15 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Psalms 8 (1), Psalms 23 (1)

Forms

• יחסר 5
• תחסר 3
• חסר 2
• יחסרו 2
• ויחסרו 1
• וחסור 1
• יחסרון 1
• החסיר 1
• חסרת 1
• חסרו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chaser more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• צַפַּחַת tsappachat “jar” 2
• אַרְבָּעִים arbaim “forty” 3
• קֶמַח qemach “flour” 2
• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 3
• כַּד kad “jar” 2
• לֶחֶם lechem “food” 3
• הָ ha “her” 3
• בֶּטֶן beten “belly” 2
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 4
• מַי mayim “water” 3
• לֵב lev “heart” 3
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 3

Key verses

The verses using chaser that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 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, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon…
• Nehemiah 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
• Psalms 8:5 — For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
• Psalms 23:1 — [A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
• Psalms 34:10 — The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
• Proverbs 13:25 — The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
• 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…
• Ecclesiastes 9:8 — Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
• Ecclesiastes 10:3 — Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
• 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…
• 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.