# H2637 חָסֵר

חָסֵר (châçêr), Strong’s H2637: to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen KJV: be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.. Occurs 21 times.

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*châçêr* — to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen

KJV: be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.

Occurs 21 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָסֵר vb. lack, need, be lacking, decrease
- Qal
- 1 lack
- 2 be lacking
- 3 diminish, decrease
- Pi. cause to lack
- Hiph. cause to be lacking, fail

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 8:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=3) — The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
- [Genesis 8:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=5) — The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of…
- [Genesis 18:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=28) — What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will…
- [Exodus 16:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=18) — When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They…
- [Deuteronomy 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=7) — For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great…
- [Deuteronomy 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=9) — a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron…
- [Deuteronomy 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=8) — but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
- [1 Kings 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=14) — For the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the…
- [Isaiah 32:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=6) — For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the…
- [Isaiah 51:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=14) — The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.