חָסֵר châçêr — to lack
Translated in the KJV as be abated, bereave, decrease, fail, lack, make lower, want.
a primitive root; to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen.
châçêr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Perfect (qatal) 3Jussive 2Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive absolute 1
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.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
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 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.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 1Participle (active) 1
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
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.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›