Lacking
חַסִּרStrong’s H2627chassir (chas-sir)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chassir is the Aramaic word usually translated “lacking”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
Meaning
- Lacking, wanting, deficient
How it's translated
- lacking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
חַסִּר chassir · lacking
lacking, wanting, deficient
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lack” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LACK, verb transitive
[Latin deliquium, which seems to be connected with linquo, to leave, to faint, and with liquo, to melt, liquid, etc.]
- To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.
- To blame. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “lack”
LACK, verb intransitive
- To be in want.“The young lions do lack and suffer hunger” Psalms 34:10
- To be wanting.“Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous” Genesis 18:28
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.