Short
קָצֵרStrong’s H7116qatser (qa-tser)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qatser is the Hebrew word usually translated “short of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.”
Meaning
- Short, impatientin size, number, life, strength, etc
How it's translated
- short of 4
- and short of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Proverbs 14:17He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
- Proverbs 14:29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
- Isaiah 37:27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Hebrew dictionary
קָצֵר qatser · short
1) short, impatient 1a) in size, number, life, strength, etc
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “short” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHORT, adjective
[Latin curtus.]
- Not long; not having great length or extension; as a short distance; a short ferry; a short flight; a short piece of timber.“The bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it” Isaiah 28:20
- Not extended in time; not of long duration.“The triumphing of the wicked is short” Job 20:5
- Not of usual or suffifient length, reach or extent.
- Not of long duration; repeated at small intervals of time; as short breath.
All definitions and other forms of “short”
- Not of adequate extent or quantity; not reaching the point demanded, desired or expected; as a quantity short of our expectations.
- Deficient; defective; imperfect.
- Not adequate; insufficient; scanty; as, provisions are short; a short allowance of water for the voyage.
- Not sufficiently supplied; scantily furnished.
- Not far distant in time; future.
- Not fetching a compass; as in the phrase, to turn short.
- Not going to the point intended; as, to stop short.
- Defective in quantity; as sheep short of their wool.
- Narrow; limited; not extended; not large or comprehensive.
- Brittle; friable; breaking all at once without splinters or shatters; as marl so short that it cannot be wrought into a ball.
- Not bending.
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; severe.
- Not to reach or obtain.
- To fail; to be insufficient.
- To fail; not to do or accomplish; as, to fall short on duty.
- To be less.
SHORT, noun
A summary account; as the short of the matter.
SHORT, adverb
Not long; as short-enduring joy; a short-breathed man.
SHORT, verb transitive
- To shorten.
- verb intransitive To fail; to decrease. [Not in use.]
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.