H2637 חָסֵר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 21 KJV occurrences
חָסֵר
châçêr · khaw-sare'
Definition
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
KJV Renderings
be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 21)
- Genesis 8:3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
- Genesis 18:28Peradventure there shall lack 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.
- Deuteronomy 8:9A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
- 1 Kings 17:14For 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 the earth.
- Psalms 23:1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Proverbs 31:11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
- Ecclesiastes 9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
- Isaiah 51:14The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.