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# חֶסְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2642

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

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

thing lacking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2642/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶסְרוֹן: n.m. thing lacking, deficiency [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2642/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. thing lacking, deficiency (Lag BN 198)—only ח׳ לֹא־יוּכַל לְהִמָּנוֹת Ec 1:15 what is lacking cannot be counted.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.15/#tree)

מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לִתְקֹ֑ן וְחֶסְר֖וֹן לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[that.which.is\].bent not it.is.able to become.straight and something.missing not it.is.able to be.numbered

*JPS 1917:* That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2642/): 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).