chaser · lacking

What it means

chaser (חָסֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lacking”.

Something, wanting in. "Lacking heart" is one who has no sense.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One who lacks something, above all sense or bread.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lacking ×11
• him who lacks ×3
• lack ×2
• lacks ×2
• run short ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Proverbs×13
• Ecclesiastes×2

• 1 Samuel 21:15

  Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to behave like a madman before me? Should this one come into my house?”

• 2 Samuel 3:29

  May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be cut off from the house of Joab one who has a discharge or a leper or one who leans on a staff or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks bread.”

• 1 Kings 11:22

  And Pharaoh said to him, “But what are you lacking with me, that here you are, seeking to go to your land?” And he said, “No, but you must let me go.”

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run short, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Elijah.

• Proverbs 6:32

  He who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; he who does it destroys his own soul.

• Proverbs 7:7

  and I saw among the simple, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

• Proverbs 9:4

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” To him who lacks sense she says:

• Proverbs 9:16

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” And to him who lacks sense she says:

• Proverbs 10:13

  On the lips of the discerning one wisdom is found, but the rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

• Proverbs 10:21

  The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

• Proverbs 11:12

  Whoever despises his neighbor is lacking in sense, but a man of insight keeps silent.

• Proverbs 12:9

  Better is one lightly esteemed who has a slave than one who acts important and lacks bread.

• Proverbs 12:11

  Whoever works his ground will be satisfied with bread, but whoever pursues empty things is lacking in sense.

• Proverbs 15:21

  Folly is joy to one who is lacking in sense, but a man of insight makes straight his going.

• Proverbs 17:18

  A man lacking in sense strikes the palm, becoming surety before his neighbor.

• Proverbs 24:30

  I passed by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense;

• Proverbs 28:16

  A prince lacking insight is also great in oppressions; whoever hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

• Ecclesiastes 6:2

  a man to whom Elohim gives riches and possessions and honor, and he is not lacking for his soul anything of all that he desires; but Elohim does not give him power to eat from it, for a foreigner eats it. This is vapor and a bad sickness.

• Ecclesiastes 10:3

  And even on the road, when the witless walks, his heart is lacking, and he says to everyone that he is witless.