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title: חֶסֶר — want · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֶסֶר (2639), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: want. BDB 1906: n.m. want, poverty. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֶסֶר

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«חֶסֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **want** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 2639 · **BDB:** חֶ֫סֶר

### Glosses

poverty (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

want [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2639/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. want, poverty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2639/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 28:22 want, poverty—always abs.; ח׳ יְבֹאֶנּוּ Pr 28:22 want shall come to him; ‖ כָּפָן hunger Jb 30:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֶסֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2639/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/)

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בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* by poverty and by hunger barren \[those who\].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

*JPS 1917:* They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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[Proverbs 28:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.22/)

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נִֽבֳהָ֥ל לַה֗וֹן אִ֭ישׁ רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝דַע כִּי־חֶ֥סֶר יְבֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].hastening to wealth a.person evil of.eye and not he.knows (dm).that poverty it will.come.to.him

*JPS 1917:* He that hath an evil eye hasteneth after riches, and knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

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