Strong’s H2637 · Hebrew
חָסֵר
châçêr · khaw-sare'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
In the King James Version be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
In 21 verses of the King James Version
- 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 8:5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
- Genesis 18:28Peradventure 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.
- Exodus 16:18And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
- Deuteronomy 2:7For 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 nothing.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 15:8But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
- 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.
- Nehemiah 9:21Yea, 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 8:5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- Psalms 23:1A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
- Proverbs 13:25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
- Proverbs 31:11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8There 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 my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
- Ecclesiastes 9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
- Song of Songs 7:2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
- Isaiah 32:6For 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.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 44:18But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
- Ezekiel 4:17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.