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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
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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 2 / 2 (Psa 8:5–Zec 1:15)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5 - For thou hast made him a little H4592 lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:10 - For yet a little while, H4592 and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16 - A little H4592 that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:2 - But as for me, my feet were almost H4592 gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14 - I should soon H4592 have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost H4592 dwelt in silence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, H4592 and strangers in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8 - Let his days be few; H4592 and let another take his office.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:87

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87 - They had almost H4592 consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14 - I was almost H4592 in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:10 - Yet a little H4592 sleep, a little H4592 slumber, a little H4592 folding of the hands to sleep:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:20 - The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. H4592

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:16 - Better is little H4592 with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:8 - Better is a little H4592 with righteousness than great revenues without right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:33 - Yet a little H4592 sleep, a little H4592 slumber, a little H4592 folding of the hands to sleep:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. H4592

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little H4592 or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:14 - There was a little city, and few H4592 men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 - Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little H4592 folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - It was but a little H4592 that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small H4592 remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing H4592 for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. H4592

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - For yet a very little while, H4592 and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very H4592 small and feeble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little H4592 moment, until the indignation be overpast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - Is it not yet a very little while, H4592 and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:2 - And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few H4592 of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, H4592 and the time of her harvest shall come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:3 - Thou shalt also take thereof a few H4592 in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little H4592 sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, H4592

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little H4592 thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - Seemeth it a small thing H4592 unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:23 - And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small H4592 people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little H4592 help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little H4592 while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:10 - Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little H4592 for the burden of the king of princes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - Ye have sown much, and bring in little; H4592 ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:9 - Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; H4592 and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, H4592 and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little H4592 displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

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