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title: קָצֵר — short · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָצֵר (7116), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: short. BDB 1906: adj. short. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָצֵר

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«קָצֵר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **short** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 7116 · **BDB:** קָצֵר²

### Glosses

\[a.person\].short (2); \[were\].short (2); \[is\].short (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

short [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7116/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. short [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7116/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. short;—in phr. קִצְרֵי־יָד 2 K 19:26 short of hand, feeble, = Is 37:27; fig. קְצַר־אַפַּיִם Pr 14:17 = impatient, so קְצַר רוּחַ v 29 (opp. אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם); of time קְצַר יָמִים †Jb 14:1 short-lived.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָצֵר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7116/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 14:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.1/)

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אָ֭דָם יְל֣וּד אִשָּׁ֑ה קְצַ֥ר יָ֝מִ֗ים וּֽשְׂבַֽע־רֹֽגֶז׃

*Word for word:* a.human.being born of.a.woman \[is\].short of.days and surfeited of.turmoil

*JPS 1917:* Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

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[Proverbs 14:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.17/)

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קְֽצַר־אַ֭פַּיִם יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה אִוֶּ֑לֶת וְאִ֥ישׁ מְ֝זִמּ֗וֹת יִשָּׂנֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[a.person\].short of.anger(s) he.does foolishness and a.person of.evil.devices he.is.hated

*JPS 1917:* He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly; and a man of wicked devices is hated.

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