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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; —
1.
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5 -

Yet You have made him a little H4592 lower than [fn]God,

And You crown him with glory and majesty!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:10 -

Yet a little H4592 while H4592 and the wicked person will be no more;

And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16 -

Better is the little H4592 of the righteous

Than the abundance of many wicked.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:2 -

But as for me, my feet came close H4592 to stumbling,

My steps [fn]had almost slipped.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14 -

“I would quickly H4592 subdue their enemies

And turn My hand against their adversaries.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 -

If the LORD had not been my help,

My soul would soon H4592 have dwelt in the land of silence.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 -

When they were only a few people in number,

Very few H4592, and strangers in it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8 -

May his days be few H4592;

May another take his office.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87 -

They almost H4592 destroyed me on earth,

But as for me, I did not abandon Your precepts.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14 -

“I was almost H4592 in total ruin

In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:10 -

“A little H4592 sleep, a little H4592 slumber,

A little H4592 folding of the hands to [fn]rest,”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:20 -

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver,

The heart of the wicked is worth little H4592.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:16 -

Better is a little H4592 with [fn]the fear of the LORD

Than great treasure, and turmoil with [fn]the treasure.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:8 -

Better is a little H4592 with righteousness

Than great income with injustice.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:33 -

“A little H4592 sleep, a little H4592 slumber,

A little H4592 folding of the hands to rest,”

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - [fn]Do not be quick with your mouth or [fn]impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few H4592.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of the laborer is sweet, whether he eats little H4592 or much; but the [fn]full stomach of the rich person does not allow him to sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:14 - there was a small city with few H4592 men in it, and a great king came to it, surrounded it, and constructed large siegeworks against it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 -

Dead flies turn a perfumer’s oil rancid, so a little H4592 foolishness is more [fn]potent than wisdom and honor.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 -

“Hardly H4592 had I [fn]left them

When I found him whom my soul loves;

I held on to him and would not let him go

Until I had brought him to my mother’s house,

And into the room of her who conceived me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 -

If the LORD of armies

Had not left us a few H4592 survivors,

We would be like Sodom,

We would be like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - Then he said, “Listen now, house of David! Is it too trivial H4592 a thing H4592 for you to [fn]try the patience of men, that you will [fn]try the patience of my God as well?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 -

Yet it does not so intend,

Nor does [fn]it plan so in its heart,

But rather it is [fn]its purpose to destroy

And to eliminate [fn]many H4592 nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - “For in a very little H4592 while My indignation against you will be ended and My anger will be directed toward their destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as [fn]a hired worker would count them, the glory of Moab will become contemptible along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small H4592 and [fn]impotent.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20 -

Come, my people, enter your rooms

And close your doors behind you;

Hide for a little H4592 [fn]while

Until indignation [fn]runs its course.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 -

Is it not yet just a little H4592 while H4592

[fn]Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,

And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:2 - and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our pleading [fn]come before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God for all this remnant—since we have been left only a few H4592 out of many, just as your own eyes now see us—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33 -

For this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says:

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor

At the time that [fn]it is tread down;

In just a little H4592 while the time of harvest will come for her.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:3 - “Take also a few H4592 hairs in number from [fn]them and bind them in the hems of your robes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - “Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them for a little H4592 while H4592 in the countries where they had gone.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - “Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to [fn]idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial H4592 matter?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - “Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and [fn]committed their abominations; but, as if that were too little H4592, you also acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - ‘Is it too little H4592 a thing H4592 for you to feed in the good pasture, that you must trample with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or too little for you to drink the clear waters, that you must muddy the rest with your feet?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:23 - “After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small H4592 force of people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - “Now when they fall they will be granted a little H4592 help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And the LORD said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for in just a little H4592 while H4592 I will [fn]punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:10 -

Even though they [fn]pay for allies among the nations,

I will gather them up now;

And they will begin to diminish H4592

Because of the burden of the king of officials.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - “You have sown much, only to [fn]harvest little H4592; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for [fn]anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:9 - You [fn]start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little H4592; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the LORD of armies. “It is because of My house which remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - “For this is what the LORD of armies says: ‘Once more [fn]in a little H4592 while H4592, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - “But I am very angry with the nations who are carefree; for while I was only a little H4592 angry, they [fn]furthered the disaster.”

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