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title: חֶסְרוֹן — thing lacking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֶסְרוֹן (2642), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: thing lacking. BDB 1906: n.m. thing lacking, deficiency. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֶסְרוֹן

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«חֶסְרוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thing lacking** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2642 · **BDB:** חֶסְרוֹן

### Glosses

something.missing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thing lacking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2642/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. thing lacking, deficiency [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2642/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. thing lacking, deficiency (Lag BN 198)—only ח׳ לֹא־יוּכַל לְהִמָּנוֹת Ec 1:15 what is lacking cannot be counted.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֶסְרוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2642/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 1:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.15/)

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מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹא־יוּכַ֣ל לִתְקֹ֑ן וְחֶסְר֖וֹן לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[that.which.is\].bent not it.is.able to become.straight and something.missing not it.is.able to be.numbered

*JPS 1917:* That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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