'Shorter' in the Bible

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

I looked up and saw a ram with two horns standing at the canal. Its two horns were both long, but one was longer than the other. The longer one was coming up after the shorter one.