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# חֶסֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2639

**want** — used 2 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/1495/2639/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫סֶר: n.m. want, poverty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2639/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 28:22 want, poverty—always abs.; ח׳ יְבֹאֶנּוּ Pr 28:22 want shall come to him; ‖ כָּפָן hunger Jb 30:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: poverty (2).

## In the verses

[Job 30:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/#tree)

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* by poverty and by hunger barren \[those who\].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

*JPS 1917:* They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

[Proverbs 28:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.22/#tree)

נִֽבֳהָ֥ל לַה֗וֹן אִ֭ישׁ רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝דַע כִּי־חֶ֥סֶר יְבֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].hastening to wealth a.person evil of.eye and not he.knows (dm).that poverty it will.come.to.him

*JPS 1917:* He that hath an evil eye hasteneth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2639.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2639/): 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).