'Short' in the Bible

Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];For why should he be esteemed?

head wraps (turbans), [short, jingling] ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets (charms),

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,Which is at the head of the rich valley,Will be like the early fig before the summer,Which one sees,And as soon as it is in his handHe [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,and its cover too small to wrap up in.

In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

“Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,They were dismayed and put to shame;They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is My hand too short to redeem?Or do I have no power to deliver?Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

"For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

Indeed, the Lord’s hand is not too short to save,and His ear is not too deaf to hear.

For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

"And there will no longer be in it a young boy who lives only a few days, or an old person who does not live out his days; for one who dies at a hundred years will be thought a mere youth, and one who falls short of a hundred years will be considered accursed.