Strong's Hebrew · H2637
חָסֵר
châçêr · khaw-sare'
Definitionto lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagebe abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
Occurrences22 in the KJV · 22 verses
חָסֵר in Scripture
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.
Genesis 8:5
And 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 18:28
Peradventure 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 16:18
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; 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 nothing.
Deuteronomy 8:9
A 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 15:8
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
1 Kings 17:14
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 the earth.
1 Kings 17:16
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, 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 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
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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