To need
חֲשַׁחStrong’s H2818chashach (cha-shach)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashach is the Aramaic word usually translated “things needed” and “needing”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.”
Meaning
- Verb
- Noun
How it's translated
- things needed 1
- needing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲשַׁח chashach · to need
verb (P'al) to need, have need
חֲשַׁח chashach · necessity
noun the thing needed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “need” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEED, noun
[to be in want. The primary sense is to press.]
- Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief.“What further need have we of witnesses?” Matthew 26:65
- Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence.“I know how to abound and to suffer need” Philippians 4:12
All definitions and other forms of “need”
NEED, verb transitive
[ to compel]
To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick” Matthew 9:12
NEED, verb intransitive
To be wanted; to be necessary.
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.