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Lexicon :: Strong's H6996 - qāṭān

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קָטָן
Transliteration
qāṭān
Pronunciation
kaw-tawn'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2009a,2009b

Strong’s Definitions

קָטָן qâṭân, kaw-tawn'; or קָטֹן qâṭôn; from H6962; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance):—least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x

The KJV translates Strong's H6996 in the following manner: small (33x), little (19x), youngest (15x), younger (14x), least (10x), less (3x), lesser (2x), little one (2x), smallest (1x), small things (1x), young (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x
The KJV translates Strong's H6996 in the following manner: small (33x), little (19x), youngest (15x), younger (14x), least (10x), less (3x), lesser (2x), little one (2x), smallest (1x), small things (1x), young (1x).

  1. young, small, insignificant, unimportant

    1. small

    2. insignificant

    3. young

    4. unimportant

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָטָן qâṭân, kaw-tawn'; or קָטֹן qâṭôn; from H6962; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance):—least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
STRONGS H6996: Abbreviations
† I. קָטָן adjective small, young, unimportant; — absolute ק׳ Genesis 9:24 +; suffix קְטַנָּם (Köii. l, 74) Jeremiah 6:13 +; feminine singular קְטַנָּה Genesis 29:16 +; masculine plural קְטַנִּים 2 Kings 18:24 +; construct קְטַנֵּי 1 Samuel 9:21 (see Dr; We conjectures נִּי-, old construct, cf, HPS), Proverbs 30:24; feminine plural קְטַנּוֺת Ezekiel 16:61 +; —
1. small; especially
a. of children, youth = young, Genesis 44:20 (J) 2 Samuel 9:12; 1 Kings 11:17; 2 Kings 2:23; 2 Kings 5:2, of sister Songs 8:8; = younger, of two children (often opposed to גדול), Genesis 9:24; Genesis 27:15, 42 (all J), Genesis 29:16, 18 (E), 1 Samuel 14:49 (feminine; opposed to הַבְּכִירָה); of younger sister Judges 15:2, so (figurative) Ezekiel 16:46 and (+ מִן compare) Ezekiel 16:61; brother 1 Chronicles 24:31; הַקּ׳ youngest son (of several) 1 Samuel 16:11; 1 Samuel 17:14; גָּדוֺל = young and old (see קָטֹן 1) Jeremiah 16:6 compare 2 Chronicles 31:15; 34:30.
b. of things : utterance Numbers 22:18 (E), weight Deuteronomy 25:13, 14, vessels 2 Chronicles 36:18, animals Psalm 104:25 (all opposed to גדול); compare also 2 Samuel 12:3; 1 Kings 2:20; 1 Kings 17:13; 1 Kings 18:44; 2 Kings 4:10; Ezekiel 43:14 (opposed to גדול), Proverbs 30:24; Songs 2:15, + probably Ezekiel 46:22 (see II. [קָטַר]); כְּלֵי הַקָּטָן Isaiah 22:24 the vessels of small size (figurative).
2. small;
a. with added idea of weakness, person 2 Kings 18:24 = Isaiah 36:9, city Ecclesiastes 9:14.
b. = insignificant,
(1) tribe 1 Samuel 9:21;
(2) person (+גדול; = all persons) Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 31:34; Jonah 3:5; Psalm 115:13; Esther 1:5, 20, cf. 1 Chronicles 12:14 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:13);
(3) in general, יוֺם קְטַנּוֺת Zechariah 4:10 day of small things. — See also קָטֹן.

קָטֹן 54 adjective small, insignificant; — absolute ק׳ 1 Samuel 2:19 +; construct קְטֹן 2 Chronicles 21:17; — feminine, plural and suffix supplied by קָטָן; —
1. small: especially
a. of youth = young, נַעַר קּ׳ 1 Samuel 20:35; 1 Kings 3:7; 2 Kings 5:14; Isaiah 11:6; = younger of two brothers, Genesis 48:19 (E) Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9 (+ מִן compare); הַקּ׳ youngest brother Genesis 42:13 + 10 times Genesis (JE), son Judges 9:5; 2 Chronicles 22:1, so קְטֹן בָּנָיו 2 Chronicles 21:17; + גדול = young and old (see קָטָן 1), i.e. everybody Genesis 19:11 (J), 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 30:2 — 1 Samuel 30:19.
b. of things 1 Samuel 2:19; 1 Kings 8:64 (+ מִן compare), Amos 6:11; Isaiah 54:7; opposed to גָּדוֺל 1 Samuel 22:15; 1 Samuel 25:36; Genesis 1:16 (P).
2. = unimportant, things, Exodus 18:22, 26 (E), 1 Samuel 20:2 (all opposed to גדול); person,=feeble Amos 7:2, 5; = insignificant Jeremiah 49:15; Obadiah 2 (both || בָּזוּי), Isaiah 60:22 (|| צָעִיר); בְּעֵינֶיךָ ק׳ 1 Samuel 15:17; especially + גָּדוֺל = low and high, + everybody, Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Kings 22:31 2 Chronicles 18:30; Jeremiah 8:10; Job 3:19, +8 times — See also קָטָן above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:16; 9:24; 9:24; 19:11; 27:15; 27:42; 29:16; 29:16; 29:18; 42:13; 44:20; 48:19

Exodus

18:22; 18:26

Numbers

22:18

Deuteronomy

1:17; 25:13; 25:14

Judges

1:13; 3:9; 9:5; 15:2

1 Samuel

2:19; 2:19; 5:9; 9:21; 9:21; 14:49; 15:17; 16:11; 17:14; 20:2; 20:35; 22:15; 25:36; 30:2; 30:19

2 Samuel

9:12; 12:3

1 Kings

2:20; 3:7; 8:64; 11:17; 17:13; 18:44; 22:31

2 Kings

2:23; 4:10; 5:2; 5:14; 18:24; 18:24

1 Chronicles

12:13; 12:14; 24:31

2 Chronicles

18:30; 21:17; 21:17; 22:1; 31:15; 34:30; 36:18

Esther

1:5; 1:20

Job

3:19

Psalms

104:25; 115:13

Proverbs

30:24; 30:24

Ecclesiastes

9:14

Song of Songs

2:15; 8:8

Isaiah

11:6; 22:24; 36:9; 54:7; 60:22

Jeremiah

6:13; 6:13; 8:10; 16:6; 31:34; 49:15

Ezekiel

16:46; 16:61; 16:61; 43:14; 46:22

Amos

6:11; 7:2; 7:5

Obadiah

1:2

Jonah

3:5

Zechariah

4:10

H6996

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6996 matches the Hebrew קָטָן (qāṭān),
which occurs 101 times in 100 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 1:16–1Ki 18:44)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24 - And Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - And Rebecca having taken the fine raiment of her elder son Esau which was with her in the house, put it on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - And the words of Esau her elder son were reported to Rebecca, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, Esau thy brother threatens thee to kill thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lea, and the name of the younger, Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for thy younger daughter Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, in the land of Chanaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father to-day, but the other one is not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:15 - herein shall ye be manifested; by the health of Pharao, ye shall not depart hence, unless your younger brother come hither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:20 - And bring your younger brother to me, and your words shall be believed; but, if not, ye shall die. And they did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father to-day in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34 - And bring to me your younger brother; then I shall know that ye are not spies, but that ye are men of peace: and I will restore you your brother, and ye shall trade in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - And Joseph [fn]lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said, Is this your younger brother, whom ye spoke of bringing to me? and he said, God have mercy on thee, my son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - And put my silver cup into the sack of the youngest, and the price of his corn. And it was done according to the word of Joseph, as he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12 - And he searched, beginning from the eldest, until he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and he has a son of his old age, a young one, and his brother is dead, and he alone has been left behind to his mother, and his father loves him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - But thou saidst to thy servants, Except your younger brother come down with you, ye shall not see my face again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - And we said, We shall not be able to go down; but if our younger brother go down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man's face, our younger brother not being with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - And they shall judge the people at all times, and the too burdensome matter they shall bring to thee, but they shall judge the smaller cases; so they shall relieve thee and help thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - And they judged the people at all times; and every too burdensome matter they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balac, If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - Thou shalt not have respect to [fn]persons in judgment, thou shalt judge [fn]small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:13 - Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great [fn]and a small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14 - Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great [fn]and a small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - And Gothoniel the younger son of Kenez the brother of Chaleb took it; and Chaleb gave him his daughter Ascha to wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and the Lord raised up a saviour to Israel, and he saved them, Gothoniel the son of Kenez, the brother of Chaleb younger than himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - And he went to the house of his father to Ephratha, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men upon one stone; but Joatham the youngest son of Jerobaal was left, for he hid himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - And her father spoke, saying, I said that thou didst surely hate her, and I gave her to one of thy friends: is not her younger sister better than she? let her be to thee instead of her.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - And his mother made him a little doublet, and brought it to him from [fn]year to year, in her going up in company with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - And it came to pass after it went about to Geth, that the hand of the Lord comes upon the city, a very great confusion; and he smote the men of the city small and great, and smote them in their secret parts: and the Gittites made to themselves images of emerods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - And Saul answered and said, Am not I the son of a Benjamite, the least tribe of the people of Israel? and of the least family of the whole tribe of Benjamin? and why hast thou spoken to me according to this word?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:49 - And the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Jessiu, and Melchisa: and these were the names of his two daughters, the name of the first-born Merob, and the name of the second Melchol.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - And Samuel said to Saul, Art thou not little in his eyes, though a leader of [fn]one of the tribes of Israel? and yet the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - And Samuel said to Jessæ, [fn]Hast thou no more sons? And Jessæ said, There is yet [fn]a little one; behold, he tends the flock. And Samuel said to Jessæ, Send and fetch him, for we may not sit down till he comes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - And Jonathan said to him, Far be it from thee: thou shalt not die: behold, my father will not do any thing great or small [fn]without discovering it to me; and why should my father hide this matter from me? this thing is not so.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:35 - And morning came, and Jonathan went out to the field, as he appointed to do for a signal to David, and a little boy was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15 - Have I begun to-day to enquire of God for him? by no means: let not the king bring a charge against his servant, and against the whole of my father's house; for thy servant knew not in all these matters anything great or small.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in his house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal was merry [fn]within him, and he was very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:2 - And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they slew neither man nor woman, but carried them captives, and went on their way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - And [fn]nothing was wanting to them of great or small, either of the spoils, or the sons and daughters, or anything that they had taken of theirs; and David recovered all.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:12 - And Memphibosthe had a little son, and his name was Micha: and all the household of Siba were servants to Memphibosthe.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - But the poor man had only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; and it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - And she said to him, I ask of thee one little request; turn not away my face from thee. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - And now, O Lord my God, thou hast [fn]appointed thy servant in the room of David my father; and I am a little child, and know not my going out and my coming in.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - In that day the king consecrated the middle of the court in the front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered the whole-burnt-offering, and the sacrifices, and the [fn]fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which was before the Lord was too little to bear the whole-burnt-offering and the sacrifices of peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - that Ader ran away, he and all the Idumæans of the servants of his father with him; and they went into Egypt; and Ader was then a little child.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - And Eliu said to her, Be of good courage, go in and do according to thy word: but make me thereof a little cake, and thou shalt bring it out to me first, and thou shalt make some for thyself and thy children last.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And the servant went again seven times: and it came to pass at the seventh time, that, behold, a little cloud like the sole of a man's foot [fn]brought water; and he said, Go up, and say to Achaab, Make ready thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain overtake thee.

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