'Short' in the Bible

She asked, 'May I follow the harvesters and gather grain among the bundles?' Since she arrived she has been working hard from this morning until now -- except for sitting in the resting hut a short time."

When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, and a container of wine.

I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance. Why should the king reward me in this way?

Elisha said to him, "Go in peace." When he had gone a short distance,

You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame. (Selah)

He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.

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

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

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

That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord's sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts."

the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples;

Their camels will be taken as plunder. Their vast herds will be taken as spoil. I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. I will bring disaster against them from every direction," says the Lord.

Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence.