# H2638 חָסֵר

חָסֵר (châçêr), Strong’s H2638: lacking; hence, without KJV: destitute, fail, lack, have need, void, want.. Occurs 19 times.

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*châçêr* — lacking; hence, without

KJV: destitute, fail, lack, have need, void, want.

Derived from [חָסֵר châçêr](https://besorah.bible/word/H2637) (to lack)

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָסֵר adj. needy, lacking, in want of

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 21:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/21?v=16) — Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my…
- [2 Samuel 3:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=29) — Let it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a…
- [1 Kings 11:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/11?v=22) — Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?” He…
- [1 Kings 17:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=16) — The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
- [Proverbs 6:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/6?v=32) — He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
- [Proverbs 7:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/7?v=7) — I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
- [Proverbs 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=4) — “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- [Proverbs 9:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/9?v=16) — “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- [Proverbs 10:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/10?v=13) — Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
- [Proverbs 10:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/10?v=21) — The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.