חֹסֶר
choser · lack, want
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2640 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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choser (חֹסֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lack, want”.
Lack: want of what is needed.
How to say it
cho·ser
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
- Not having what is needed.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 28:48
you will serve your enemies, whom YHWH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:57
and on her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and on her children whom she bears; for she will eat them for lack of everything in secret, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
- Amos 4:6
And I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.