Chacer means “want” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2637 — katalalos (“backbiter”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2637 חָסֵר (chacer) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chacer (khaw-sare') v. 1. to lack 2. (by implication) to fail, want, lessen It has 21 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include lack, fail, want, lacked, and wanteth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chacer (khaw-sare') v. 1. to lack 2. (by implication) to fail, want, lessen [a primitive root] KJV: be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2637. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to lack
Usage: 1) to lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lack 1a2) to be lacking 1a3) to diminish, decrease 1b) (Piel) to cause to lack 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be lacking
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chacer, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2637.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2637, grouped by book.
Chacer (Strong's H2637) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "want". chacer (khaw-sare') v. 1. to lack 2. (by implication) to fail, want, lessen
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H2637 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2637 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lack, fail, want, lacked, wanteth, and decreased. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.