chaser · lack, be lacking

What it means

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

Lack, be short of; decrease.

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. To be without, or run low.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lack ×9
• be lacking ×2
• You made him ×1
• decreasing ×1
• depriving ×1
• had decreased ×1
• he lacks ×1
• he makes fail ×1
• run short ×1
• they lacked ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 8:3

  And the waters receded from the earth, going and receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased.

• Genesis 8:5

  And the waters kept on decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

• Genesis 18:28

  Perhaps the fifty righteous will lack five; will you destroy for the five the whole city?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find there forty-five.”

• Exodus 16:18

  But when they measured it with the omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

• Deuteronomy 2:7

  For YHWH your Elohim has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years YHWH your Elohim has been with you; you have lacked nothing.”

• Deuteronomy 8:9

  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you will dig out copper.

• Deuteronomy 15:8

  But you shall freely open your hand to him and freely lend him enough for his need, whatever he lacks.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run short, until the day that YHWH gives rain on the face of the ground.’”

• Nehemiah 9:21

  Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

• Psalms 8:5

  You made him a little lower than Elohim, and with glory and majesty you crowned him.

• Psalms 23:1

  A psalm of David. YHWH is my shepherd; I will lack nothing.

• Psalms 34:10

  Young lions grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek YHWH will not lack any good thing.

• Proverbs 13:25

  The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked will lack.

• Proverbs 31:11

  The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will not lack plunder.

• Ecclesiastes 4:8

  There is one, and no second; he has neither son nor brother, and there is no end to all his toil; also his eye is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving my soul of good?” This too is vapor, and it is a bad occupation.

• Ecclesiastes 9:8

  At every time let your garments be white, and let oil on your head not be lacking.

• Song of Songs 7:2

  Your navel is a rounded bowl; let it not lack mixed wine; your belly is a heap of wheat fenced with lilies.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart does wickedness, to practice godlessness and to speak error against YHWH, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty he makes fail.

• Isaiah 51:14

  Soon the one bowed down will be set free, and he will not die going down to the pit, nor will his bread be lacking.

• Jeremiah 44:18

  But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by famine we have come to an end.”

• Ezekiel 4:17

  so that they will lack bread and water, and be appalled, one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.”