Lacking
חָסֵרStrong’s H2638chaser (cha-ser)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaser is the Hebrew word usually translated “lacking of”, “lacking” and “lack of”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?”
Meaning
- In need of, lacking, needy, in want of
How it's translated
- lacking of 10
- and lacking of 3
- lacking 2
- by lack of 1
- to lacking of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 13
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 3:29Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
- 1 Kings 11:22Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
- Proverbs 6:32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
- Proverbs 7:7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
- Proverbs 9:4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
- Proverbs 9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Hebrew dictionary
חָסֵר chaser · lacking
in need of, lacking, needy, in want of
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.