H4592 מְעַט
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 102 KJV occurrences
מְעַט
mᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'
Definition
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
KJV Renderings
almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very.
Derivation / Etymology
or מְעָט; from H4591 (מָעַט);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 102)
- Genesis 18:4Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
- Exodus 23:30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
- Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
- 2 Samuel 19:36Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Psalms 109:8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
- Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
- Ezekiel 5:3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.