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title: חֹסֶר — want · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹסֶר (2640), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: want. BDB 1906: want, lack. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹסֶר

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«חֹסֶר» 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 2640 · **BDB:** חֹ֫סֶר

### Glosses

lack (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

want [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2640/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

want, lack [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2640/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] want, lack (Lag BN 144)—only cstr. ח׳ לֶחֶס Am 4:6; ח׳ כֹּל Dt 28:48, 57.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 «חֹסֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2640/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 4:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.6/)

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וְגַם־אֲנִי֩ נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם נִקְי֤וֹן שִׁנַּ֙יִם֙ בְּכָל־עָ֣רֵיכֶ֔ם וְחֹ֣סֶר לֶ֔חֶם בְּכֹ֖ל מְקוֹמֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָדַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and also I I.gave to you cleanness of.teeth in all cities your and lack of.bread in all places your and not you.returned to me the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

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[Deuteronomy 28:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.48/)

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וְעָבַדְתָּ֣ אֶת־אֹיְבֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְשַׁלְּחֶ֤נּוּ יְהוָה֙ בָּ֔ךְ בְּרָעָ֧ב וּבְצָמָ֛א וּבְעֵירֹ֖ם וּבְחֹ֣סֶר כֹּ֑ל וְנָתַ֞ן עֹ֤ל בַּרְזֶל֙ עַל־צַוָּארֶ֔ךָ עַ֥ד הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹ אֹתָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.serve (et) enemies your whom he will.send.him.forth Yahweh on you in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of.everything and he.will.put a.yoke of.iron on neck your until he has.destroyed you

*JPS 1917:* therefore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

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