Hebrew

Lack

חֹ֫סֶרStrong’s H2640

choser (cho-ser)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Choser is the Hebrew word usually translated “lack of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.”

Deuteronomy 28:48 KJV

Meaning

Want, lack, want of, lack of

How it's translated

and in lack of 1
in lack of 1
and lack of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Deuteronomy 2
Amos 1

2 books in all.

Related words

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Hebrew dictionary

חֹ֫סֶר choser · lack

want, lack, want of, lack 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

LACK, noun

Want; destitution; need; failure.

“He that gathered little, had no lack” Exodus 16:18

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.