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# חָסֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2638

**needy** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

needy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2638/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסֵר²: adj. needy, lacking, in want of [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2638/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. needy, lacking, in want of—ח׳ abs. Ec 6:2; cstr. חֲסַר 1 S 21:16 + 13 times;—needy, in want of ח׳ משׁגעים אני 1 S 21:16 am I in want of madmen? 2 S 3:29 in need of bread, so Pr 12:9; usually חֲסַר־לֵב lacking understanding, sense Pr 6:32; 7:7; 9:4, 16; 10:13; 11:12; 12:11; 15:21; אָדָם ח׳־לֵב Pr 17:18; 24:30; נָּגִיד ח׳ תְּבוּנוֹת Pr 28:16; אֵינֶנּוּ חָסֵר לְנַפְשׁוֹ מִכֹּל וג׳ Ec 6:2 neither is he lacking for his soul in aught of (מן part.) all that he desireth.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lacking (9); \[is\] lacking (4); \[he is\] lacking (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.4/#tree)

מִי־פֶ֭תִי יָסֻ֣ר הֵ֑נָּה חֲסַר־לֵ֝֗ב אָ֣מְרָה לּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who? \[is\].naive let.him.turn.aside here \[one\].lacking of.heart she.says to him

*JPS 1917:* 'Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him:

[Proverbs 6:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.32/#tree)

נֹאֵ֣ף אִשָּׁ֣ה חֲסַר־לֵ֑ב מַֽשְׁחִ֥ית נַ֝פְשׁ֗וֹ ה֣וּא יַעֲשֶֽׂנָּה׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].commits.adultery a.woman \[is\].lacking of.heart \[one.who\].destroys self his.own he he does.it

*JPS 1917:* He that committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2638.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2638/): 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).