'Short' in the Bible

‘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.

Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said.”

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,And the joy of the godless momentary?

The bed is too short on which to stretch out,And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself 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 there no man when I came?When I called, why was there none to answer?Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?Or have I no power to deliver?Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke,I make the rivers a wilderness;Their fish stink for lack of waterAnd die of thirst.

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so shortThat it cannot save;Nor is His ear so dullThat it cannot hear.

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

“Is there yet a man in the wicked house,Along with treasures of wickednessAnd a short measure that is cursed?

Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

Agrippa replied to Paul, “In a short time you will persuade me to become a Christian.”

And Paul said, “I would wish to God, that whether in a short or long time, not only you, but also all who hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these chains.”

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.”

and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.