'Short' in the Bible
Ehud made for himself a short, {two-edged} sword (a cubit in length), and he fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh.
He said to him, "Go in peace," so he went from him {a short distance}.
Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.
"A human being born of a woman [is] short of days and full of troubles.
that [the] rejoicing of [the] wicked [is] {short}, and the joy of [the] godless {lasts only a moment}?
Upon it [the] quiver rattles [along with] [the] flash of [the] spear and [the] short sword.
Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.
You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah
He has broken my strength along the way; he has cut short my days.
He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.
For the bed is too short {to stretch out on}, and the covering is [too] narrow when wrapping oneself.
I abandoned you {for a short} moment, but I will gather you with great compassion.
Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short {to save}, and his ear is not [too] dull {to hear}.
[The] bow and [the] short sword they grasp [are] cruel, and they show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, drawn up like a man for battle against you, O daughter of Zion."
They keep hold of bow and short sword. They [are] cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound [is] like the sea, it roars, and upon horses they ride. Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
And you have not [only] gone in their ways, but you [also] did according to their detestable things. {In such a short time} you behaved [more] corruptly than they in all of your ways.
And their head they shall not shave, or long hair they shall not let grow; short they shall clip their heads.
And he said to them, "You yourselves come privately to an isolated place and rest for a short time." For those [who were] coming and going were many, and they did not even have time to eat.
And he was seeking to see Jesus--who he was--and he was not able to as a result of the crowd, because he was short in stature.
And after a short time another person saw him [and] said, "You also are [one] of them!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"
But a certain man stood up in the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee {named} Gamaliel, a teacher of the law respected by all the people, [and] gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.
Then Festus replied [that] Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and [he] himself was about to go [there] in a short time.
But Agrippa [said] to Paul, "In a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?"
And Paul [replied], "I pray to God, whether in a short time or in a long time, not only you but also all those who are listening to me today may become such [people] as I also am, except for these bonds!"
And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.
For if indeed I grieved you by my letter, I do not regret [it]. Even if I did regret [it] (I see that that letter grieved you, even though for {a short time}),
But [when] we were made orphans by separation from you, brothers, for {a short time} (in face, not in heart), [we were] even more eager with great desire to see your face,
I am writing these [things] to you, hoping to come to you in a short time.
You made him for a short [time] lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor;
but we see Jesus, for a short [time] made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone.
Therefore let us fear, [while there] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of [it].
Take care [that] no one falls short of the grace of God; [that] no one growing up [like] a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.
in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, [after you] have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, [and] establish [you].
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his slaves [the things] which must take place in a short time, and communicated [it] [by] sending [it] through his angel to his slave John,
And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until [the number of] their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they [had been] were completed also.
Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and whenever he comes it is necessary [for] him to remain a short time.
and threw him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it] above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these [things] it is necessary [for] him to be released [for] a short time.
And he said to me, "These words [are] faithful and true, and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves [the things] which must take place in a short time."