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Lexicon :: Strong's G3398 - mikros

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μικρός
Transliteration
mikros (Key)
Pronunciation
mik-ros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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TDNT Reference: 4:648,593

Strong’s Definitions

μικρός mikrós, mik-ros'; apparently a primary word; small (in size, quantity, number or (figuratively) dignity):—least, less, little, small.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's G3398 in the following manner: little (14x), least (6x), small (6x), less (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's G3398 in the following manner: little (14x), least (6x), small (6x), less (2x).

  1. small, little

    1. of size: hence of stature, of length

    2. of space

    3. of age: less by birth, younger

    4. of time: short, brief, a little while, how little!

    5. of quantity: i.e. number, amount

    6. of rank or influence

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μικρός mikrós, mik-ros'; apparently a primary word; small (in size, quantity, number or (figuratively) dignity):—least, less, little, small.
STRONGS G3398:
μικρός, μικρά, μικρόν, comparitive μικρότερος, μικροτερα, ἐρον (from Homer down), the Sept. for קָטֹן, קָטָן, מְעַט, small, little; used
a. of size: Matthew 13:32; Mark 4:31; hence, of stature, τῇ ἡλικία, Luke 19:3; of length, James 3:5.
b. of space: neuter προελθών (προσελθών, T Tr WH marginal reading in Matthew, Tr WH marginal reading in Mark (see προσέρχομαι, a.)) μικρόν, having gone forward a little, Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:35 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 32,6; Buttmann, § 131, 11f).
c. of age: less by birth, younger, Mark 15:40 (others take this of stature); οἱ μικροί, the little ones, young children, Matthew 18:6, 10, 14; Mark 9:42; ἐπο μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου (A. V. from the least to the greatest), Acts 8:10; Hebrews 8:11 (Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 38:34 (Jer. 31:34)); μικρός τέ καί μέγας (both small and great) i. e. all, Acts 26:22; plural, Revelation 11:18; Revelation 13:16; Revelation 19:5, 18; Revelation 20:12.
d. of time, short, brief: neuter — nominative, ἔτι (or ἔτι omitted) μικρόν (namely, ἔσται) καί (yet) a little while and etc. i. e. shortly (this shall come to pass), John 14:19; John 16:16f, 19 ((cf. Exodus 17:4)); ἔτι μικρόν ὅσον ὅσον (see ὅσος, a.); without καί, Hebrews 10:37 (Isaiah 26:20); τό μικρόν (Tr WH omits τό), John 16:18; — μικρόν accusative (of duration), John 13:33 (Job 36:2); μικρόν χρόνον, John 7:33; John 12:35; Revelation 6:11; Revelation 20:3; μετά μικρόν, after a little while, Matthew 26:73; Mark 14:70, (πρό μικροῦ, Wis. 15:8).
e. of quantity, i. e. number or amount: μικρά ζύμη, 1 Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:9; of number, μικρόν ποιμιον, Luke 12:32; of quantity, μικρά δύναμις, Revelation 3:8; neuter μικρόν (τί), a little, 2 Corinthians 11:1, 16.
f. of rank or influence: Matthew 10:42; Luke 9:48; Luke 17:2; ὁ μικρότερος ἐν τῇ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν, he that is inferior to the other citizens of the kingdom of heaven in knowledge of the gospel (R. V. but little in etc.; cf. Winers Grammar, 244 (229); Buttmann, § 123, 13), Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
17:4
Job
36:2
Isaiah
26:20
Jeremiah
6:13; 31:34
Matthew
10:42; 11:11; 13:32; 18:6; 18:10; 18:14; 26:39; 26:73
Mark
4:31; 9:42; 14:35; 14:70; 15:40
Luke
7:28; 9:48; 12:32; 17:2; 19:3
John
7:33; 12:35; 13:33; 14:19; 16:16; 16:18; 16:19
Acts
8:10; 26:22
1 Corinthians
5:6
2 Corinthians
11:1; 11:16
Galatians
5:9
Hebrews
8:11; 10:37
James
3:5
Revelation
3:8; 6:11; 11:18; 13:16; 19:5; 19:18; 20:3; 20:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3398 matches the Greek μικρός (mikros),
which occurs 129 times in 124 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 19:11–2Ki 2:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - And they [fn]struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from small to great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) [fn]that my life may be preserved.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water to drink from your jar.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and may it be that the [fn]maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:30 - “For you had little before [fn]I came, but it has spread out to a multitude, and Yahweh has blessed you [fn]at every step of mine. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - Then he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from there, so that we may live and not die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - And it happened when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:25 - “And our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are [fn]130; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not [fn]attained to the days of the years [fn]that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:4 - So Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30 - “I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take the land as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - is it [fn]not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - “Is it [fn]not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in the wilderness, but you would also lord it over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - And Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great, to trespass the [fn]command of Yahweh my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - ‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear [fn]man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - “And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, lest the [fn]wild beasts become too numerous for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:13 -

“You shall not have in your bag [fn]differing weights, a large and a small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14 - “You shall not have in your house [fn]differing measures, a large and a small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:17 - ‘Is the iniquity of Peor too small a thing for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there was a plague on the congregation of Yahweh?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - ‘If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then [fn]cross into the land of the possession of Yahweh, where the tabernacle of Yahweh dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves, besides the altar of Yahweh our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - Then he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a [fn]bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - But he said to Him, “O Lord, with what shall I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - “And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now; she has been sitting in the house for a little while.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - Now it happened after they had brought it around, that the hand of Yahweh was against the city with very great confusion; and He struck the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - And Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the [fn]tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me in this way?”

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And Samuel said, “Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? And Yahweh anointed you king over Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the young men?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is shepherding the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and [fn]bring him, for we will not turn around until he comes here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - And he said to him, “Far from it, you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without revealing it in my ear. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”

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Now it happened in the morning that Jonathan went out into the field for the appointment with David, and a very young man was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15 - “Did I just begin to ask of God on his behalf today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to any of the household of my father, for your servant knows nothing small or great of this whole affair.”

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Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything small or great until the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:2 - and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great—they did not put anyone to death—and carried them off and went their way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - Indeed nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:19 - “And yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord Yahweh, for You have spoken also of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future. And this is the law of man, O Lord Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:12 - Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.

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“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb

Which he bought and nourished;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It would eat his morsel of bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,

And was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - ‘I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your [fn]care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - Then Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have crossed the brook of water.” And when they searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:25 - Then David built there an altar to Yahweh and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus Yahweh was moved by the entreaty for the land, and the plague was checked from being upon Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - Then she said, “I am making one small request of you; do not turn [fn]me away.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not turn [fn]you away.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - “So now, O Yahweh my God, You have made Your slave king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On the same day the king set apart as holy the middle of the court that was before the house of Yahweh, because there he [fn]offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - that Hadad fled [fn]to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from [fn]it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - Now it happened at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘[fn]Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the rain does not stop you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:31 - Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two commanders of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone.”

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Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”


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