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# קָצֵר

Biblical Hebrew

**be short** — used 14 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

be short [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e6_5b5_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָצֵר: vb. be short Qal Hiph. Pi. Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e6_5b5_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** I. קָצַר (Ges§ 44 c Sta§ 384, 2) vb. be short (NH קָצֵר short, קִצֵּר, shorten; Arabic قَصَرَ shorten, قَصُرَ be short, c. عَن come short of; J.Aram קְצַר be short);—Qal Pf. 3 ms. קָצַר Is 28:20 Mi 2:7 (SS קְצַר from adj. קָצֵר); 3 fs. קָֽצְרָה Is 50:2; 59:1; Impf. 3 fs. תִּקְצַר Jb 21:4 +, 3 fpl. תִּקְצֹרְנָה Pr 10:27; Inf. abs. קָצוֹר Is 50:2; Pt. pass. fpl. קְצֻרוֹת Ez 42:5;—be short, of bed Is 28:20 (fig.), of לְשָׁכוֹת Ez 42:5; especially (fig.) of יַד י׳, i.e. be ineffective, powerless Nu 11:23 (JE), c. מִן comp. Is 50:2 (+ inf. abs.), 59:1; c. נֶפֶשׁ, רוּחַ, = be impatient (opp. \[אָרַךְ\] Hiph. 1 (c)): וַתִּק׳ נֶפֶשׁ הָעָם Nu 21:4b (JE), of utter discouragement, cf. (of רוּחַ) Jb 21:4; וַתִּק׳ נַפְשׁוֹ Ju 16:16 i.e. he was worn out (by importunity), so of proph. (representing י׳) Zc 11:8 (ב pers.) reach limit of patience with, endurance of; of י׳ Ju 10:16 (ב rei); ק׳ רוּחַ י׳ Mi 2:7 (v. supr.); ק׳ of time †Pr 10:27 (years of wicked). Pi. shorten Pf. 3 ms. קִצַּר יָמַי ψ 102:24. Hiph. id., Pf. 3 ms. הִקְצַרְתָּ יְמֵי וגו׳ ψ 89:46.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was short (3); it is \[too\] short (2); (be short)? (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.27/#tree)

יִרְאַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה תּוֹסִ֣יף יָמִ֑ים וּשְׁנ֖וֹת רְשָׁעִ֣ים תִּקְצֹֽרְנָה׃

*Word for word:* the.fear of.Yahweh it.adds days and.\[the\] years of.wicked.\[people\] they.will.be.short

*JPS 1917:* The fear of the LORD prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

[Psalms 89:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.46/#tree)

הִ֭קְצַרְתָּ יְמֵ֣י עֲלוּמָ֑יו הֶֽעֱטִ֨יתָ עָלָ֖יו בּוּשָׁ֣ה סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.cut.short the.days his.youth(s) his you.have.wrapped on him shame Selah

*JPS 1917:* The days of his youth hast Thou shortened; Thou hast covered him with shame.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e6_5b5_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e6_5b5_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).