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# חַסִּיר

Biblical Aramaic

**lacking** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lacking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5e1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַסִּר: adj. lacking, wanting, deficient [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5e1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. lacking, wanting, deficient (cf. BH חָסֵר);—ח׳ Dn 5:27.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lacking (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.27/#tree)

תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* teqel you.have.been.weighed in the scales and you.have.been.found lacking

*JPS 1917:* TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5e1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b7_5e1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).