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# קֹצֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7115

**shortness** — 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

shortness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7115/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֹ֫צֶר: shortness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7115/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shortness;—cstr. ק׳ רוּחַ Ex 6:9 (P) = impatience.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: shortness (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.9/#tree)

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר מֹשֶׁ֛ה כֵּ֖ן אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה מִקֹּ֣צֶר ר֔וּחַ וּמֵעֲבֹדָ֖ה קָשָֽׁה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.spoke Moses thus to the.people of.Israel and not they.listened to Moses from shortness of.spirit and from labor hard

*JPS 1917:* And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7115.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7115/): 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).