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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

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 BoxPsa 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5 - For You have made him a little lower than the angels,[fn]
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:10 - For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more;
Indeed, you will look carefully for his place,
But it shall be no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:2 - But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;
My steps had nearly slipped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14 - I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had been my help,
My soul would soon have settled in silence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - When they were few in number,
Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8 - Let his days be few,
And let another take his office.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87 - They almost made an end of me on earth,
But I did not forsake Your precepts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14 - I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:20 - The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
The heart of the wicked is worth little.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:16 - Better is a little with the fear of the LORD,
Than great treasure with trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:8 - Better is a little with righteousness,
Than vast revenues without justice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:33 - A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - Do not be rash with your mouth,
And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God.
For God is in heaven, and you on earth;
Therefore let your words be few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:14 - There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great snares[fn] around it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 - Dead flies putrefy[fn] the perfumer’s ointment,
And cause it to give off a foul odor;
So does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed by them,
When I found the one I love.
I held him and would not let him go,
Until I had brought him to the house of my mother,
And into the chamber of her who conceived me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - Unless the LORD of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - “For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20 - Come, my people, enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:2 - and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, for all this remnant (since we are left but a few of many, as you can see),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
When it is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
And the time of her harvest will come.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:3 - “You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - “Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - “You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:18 - “Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture—and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the residue with your feet?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:23

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - “Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - Then the LORD said to him:

“Call his name Jezreel,
For in a little while
I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:10 - Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
Now I will gather them;
And they shall sorrow a little,[fn]
Because of the burden[fn] of the king of princes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - “You have sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:9 - “You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For I was a little angry,
And they helped—but with evil intent.”

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