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# חֹסֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2640

**want** — used 3 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

want [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2640/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫סֶר: want, lack [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2640/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] want, lack (Lag BN 144)—only cstr. ח׳ לֶחֶס Am 4:6; ח׳ כֹּל Dt 28:48, 57.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: lack (3).

## In the verses

[Amos 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.6/#tree)

וְגַם־אֲנִי֩ נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם נִקְי֤וֹן שִׁנַּ֙יִם֙ בְּכָל־עָ֣רֵיכֶ֔ם וְחֹ֣סֶר לֶ֔חֶם בְּכֹ֖ל מְקוֹמֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָדַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and also I I.gave to you cleanness of.teeth in all cities your and lack of.bread in all places your and not you.returned to me the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

[Deuteronomy 28:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.48/#tree)

וְעָבַדְתָּ֣ אֶת־אֹיְבֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְשַׁלְּחֶ֤נּוּ יְהוָה֙ בָּ֔ךְ בְּרָעָ֧ב וּבְצָמָ֛א וּבְעֵירֹ֖ם וּבְחֹ֣סֶר כֹּ֑ל וְנָתַ֞ן עֹ֤ל בַּרְזֶל֙ עַל־צַוָּארֶ֔ךָ עַ֥ד הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹ אֹתָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.serve (et) enemies your whom he will.send.him.forth Yahweh on you in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of.everything and he.will.put a.yoke of.iron on neck your until he has.destroyed you

*JPS 1917:* therefore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2640.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2640/): 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).