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Lexicon :: Strong's H4592 - mᵊʿaṭ

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מְעַט
Transliteration
mᵊʿaṭ
Pronunciation
meh-at'
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Part of Speech
substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1228a

Strong’s Definitions

מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ, meh-at'; or מְעָט mᵉʻâṭ; from H4591; a little or few (often adverbial or comparative):—almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, × very.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x

The KJV translates Strong's H4592 in the following manner: little (49x), few (23x), while (6x), almost (5x), small thing (4x), small (3x), some (2x), matter (2x), soon (2x), fewer (1x), fewest (1x), lightly (1x), very (1x), little way (1x), worth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x
The KJV translates Strong's H4592 in the following manner: little (49x), few (23x), while (6x), almost (5x), small thing (4x), small (3x), some (2x), matter (2x), soon (2x), fewer (1x), fewest (1x), lightly (1x), very (1x), little way (1x), worth (1x).

  1. littleness, few, a little, fewness

    1. little, small, littleness, fewness, too little, yet a little

    2. like a little, within a little, almost, just, hardly, shortly, little worth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ, meh-at'; or מְעָט mᵉʻâṭ; from H4591; a little or few (often adverbial or comparative):—almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, × very.
STRONGS H4592: Abbreviations
מְעַט 101 substantive a little, fewness, a few; — מ׳ absolute and construct, מְעָ֑ט Isaiah 10:7 +, plural מְעַטִּים Psalm 109:8; Ecclesiastes 5:1; —
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a. Genesis 30:30 מעט אשׁר היה לך לְפָנַי the little that thou hadst, Genesis 47:9 מעט ורעים היו ימי שׁני חיי few and evil, Leviticus 25:52; Numbers 26:54 (compare Numbers 33:54) וְלַמְעַט תמעיט נחלתו and to the small (few) thou shalt make small his inheritance, Numbers 33:56; Numbers 35:8 תמעיטו הַֽמְעַט וּמֵאֵת, Deuteronomy 7:7 מכל־ הַֽמְעַט אתםֿ וכיֿ העמים ye are the fewest out of all peoples, 1 Samuel 14:6 לְהוֺשִׁיעַ בְּרַב אוֺ בִמְעָ֑ט, Jeremiah 42:2 כִּי נִשְׁאַרְנוּ מְעַט מֵהַרְבֵּה we are left as few out of many, Ezekiel 5:3 מִשָּׁם וְלָקַחְתָּ בְּמִסְפָּר מְעַט, Haggai 1:6 זְרַעְתֶּם הַרְבֵּה וְהָבֵא מְעָ֑ט (compare Haggai 1:9), Psalm 8:6 ותחסּרהו מעט מאלהים, Psalm 37:16 טוֺב מְעַט לַצַּדִּיק (compare Proverbs 15:16; Proverbs 16:8), 2 Chronicles 29:34 רַק הַכֹּהֲנִים הָיוּ לִמְעָ֑ט; as predicate Numbers 13:18 הַמְעַט הוּא אִםרָֿ֑ב, Joshua 7:3 כִּי מְעַט הֵמָּה, Job 10:20; Ruth 2:7; Nehemiah 7:4; Isaiah 16:14 וּשְׁאָר מְעַט מִזְעָר. — Hosea 8:10 וַיָּחֵלּוּ מְעַט and they begin as littleness (= to be minished) because of, &c.; but read probably (Greek Version of the LXX) וְיֶחְדְּלוּ מְעַט מִמְּשֹׁחַ and they shall cease for a little (d) from anointing, etc.
b. as substantive with following genitive, Genesis 18:4 מְעַט מַיִם a little of water, Genesis 24:17, 43, מְעַט אֹכֶל Genesis 43:2; Genesis 44:25; 1 Samuel 14:43; 1 Samuel 17:28 מְעַט הַצּאֹן הָהֵ֫נָּה literally the fewness of those sheep, Proverbs 6:10 +; as genitive to a previous substantive, מְתֵי מְעָ֑ט men of fewness Deuteronomy 26:5; Deuteronomy 28:62; in apposition, Isaiah 10:7 לְהַכְרִית גּוֺיִם לֹא מְעָ֑ט, Ezra 9:8 מִחְיָה מְעַט, Nehemiah 2:12 וַאֲנָשִׁים מְעַט עִמִּי, Ecclesiastes 9:4; either genitive or appositive, Ecclesiastes 10:1; Daniel 11:34 יֵעָֽזְרוּ עֵזֶר מְעָ֑ט with a help of smallness.
c. twice declined as an adjective, Psalm 109:8 יִהְיוּ יָמָיו מְעַטִּים, Ecclesiastes 5:1 עלכֿן יהיו דבריך מְעַטִּים.
d. as adverb. accusative, of place, 2 Samuel 16:1 וְדָוִד עֹבֵר מְעַט; of time, Job 10:20 b; of degree, 2 Kings 10:18 אַחְאָב עָבַד אֶתהַֿבַּעַל מְעָ֑ט, Ezekiel 11:16 and have been to them for a sanctuary but little, Zechariah 1:15; repeated מְעַט מְעַט by little, by little = gradually, Exodus 23:30; Deuteronomy 7:22.
e. phrases: —
a. with the interrogative הֲ, † Genesis 30:15 אֶתֿ קַחְתֵּך הַֽמְעַט וְלָקַחַת אִישִׁי was thy taking my husband (too) little? and (wilt thou be) for taking also my son's love-apples? Numbers 16:9-10 כִּי מִכֶּם הַֽמְעַט כְּהֻנָּה גַּם וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם ֗֗֗ הִבְדִּיל is it too little for you that J. hath separated, etc.,... and do ye seek, etc.? Numbers 16:13 ַֽֽֽהמְעַט כִּי הֶעֱלִיתָנוּ ֗֗֗ כִּי תִשְׂתָּרֵר גַּם הִשְׂתָּרֵר, Joshua 22:17f. וגו׳ תָּשׁוּבו וְאַתֶּם ֗֗֗ לָנוּ הַֽמְעַט, Isaiah 7:13 וגו׳ תַלְאוּ כִּי אֲנָשִׁים הַלְאוֺת מִכֶּם הַֽמְעַט is wearying men too little for you, that you will weary also my God? Ezekiel 34:18 (as Ew Co AV RV), Job 15:11 אֵל תַּנְחוּמוֺת מִמְּךָ הַֽמְעַט. But Ezekiel 16:20 (si vera lectio) was it (too) little because of thy whoredom? (was that insufficient for thee? Kö iii. 406 m).
b. עוֺד מְעַט וְ׳, † Exodus 17:4 עוֺד מְעַט וּסְקָלֻנִי yet a little, and they will stone me, Jeremiah 51:33; Hosea 1:4; Psalm 37:10; עוֺד מְעַט מִזְעָר וְ׳ † Isaiah 10:25; Isaiah 29:17; compare Haggai 2:6; Job 24:24.
2. † כִּמְעַט like a little: hence
a. within a little, almost (compare ὀλίγου), Genesis 26:10 כִּמְעַט שָׁכַב ֗֗֗ almost had lain..., Psalm 73:2 Qr, Psalm 94:17; Psalm 119:87; Proverbs 5:14 (all followed by perfect); Ezekiel 16:47 כִּמְעַט קָט וַתַּשְׁחִתִי מֵהֶן like a little, and thou hadst done more corruptly than they; Songs 3:4 כִּמְעַט שֶׁעָבַרְתִּי מֵהֶם = hardly had I passed.
b. with imperfect, just, 2 Samuel 19:37 כמעט יעבר עבדך just would thy servant pass over; lightly, easily, quickly (compare δἰ ὀλίγου), Psalm 2:12 אַפּוֹ ֺכִּמְעַט יִבְעַר כִּי, Psalm 81:15; Job 32:22.
c. = shortly, 2 Chronicles 12:7.
d. = little worth, Proverbs 10:20 כמעט ולב רשׁעים.
e. pleonastic for מְעַט, Isaiah 1:9 (accents) כִּמְעָ֑ט שָׂרִיר a little remnant, Psalm 105:12 (= 1 Chronicles 16:19) כִּמְעַט וְגָרִים בָּהּ; כִּמְעַט רֶגַע like the littleness of a moment = for a little moment, Isaiah 26:20; Ezra 9:8.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:4; 24:17; 24:43; 26:10; 30:15; 30:30; 43:2; 44:25; 47:9

Exodus

17:4; 23:30

Leviticus

25:52

Numbers

13:18; 16:9; 16:10; 16:13; 26:54; 33:54; 33:56; 35:8

Deuteronomy

7:7; 7:22; 26:5; 28:62

Joshua

7:3; 22:17

Ruth

2:7

1 Samuel

14:6; 14:43; 17:28

2 Samuel

16:1; 19:37

2 Kings

10:18

1 Chronicles

16:19

2 Chronicles

12:7; 29:34

Ezra

9:8; 9:8

Nehemiah

2:12; 7:4

Job

10:20; 10:20; 15:11; 24:24; 32:22

Psalms

2:12; 8:6; 37:10; 37:16; 73:2; 81:15; 94:17; 105:12; 109:8; 109:8; 119:87

Proverbs

5:14; 6:10; 10:20; 15:16; 16:8

Ecclesiastes

5:1; 5:1; 9:4; 10:1

Song of Songs

3:4

Isaiah

1:9; 7:13; 10:7; 10:7; 10:25; 16:14; 26:20; 29:17

Jeremiah

42:2; 51:33

Ezekiel

5:3; 11:16; 16:20; 16:47; 34:18

Daniel

11:34

Hosea

1:4; 8:10

Haggai

1:6; 1:9; 2:6

Zechariah

1:15

H4592

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Strong's Number H4592 matches the Hebrew מְעַט (mᵊʿaṭ),
which occurs 101 times in 92 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 18:4–Psa 2:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:4 - Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the almah who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Avimelekh 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 on us!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's dudaim, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's dudaim."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:30 - For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Mitzrayim, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Their father, Yisra'el, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:25 - Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - Ya`akov said to Par`oh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:4 - Moshe cried to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30 - Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - If there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Yisra'el has separated you from the congregation of Yisra'el, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall you inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Yisra'el, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7 - The LORD didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Arammian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Mitzrayim, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the arbeh shall consume it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - Then Sha'ul said to Yonatan, Tell me what you have done. Yonatan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - Your servant would but just go over the Yarden with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Tzarfat; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - She said, As the LORD your God lives, I aren't they a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:8 - Now for a little moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

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