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מְעַט

mᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'Hebrew · H4592

Derivation

or מְעָט; from H4591 (מָעַט);

Meaning

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

In the King James Version

almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very.

Translated as

little (48), few (19), while (6), almost (5), thing (4), small (3), some (2), soon (2), lightly (1), matter (1), fewer (1), fewest (1), way (1), very (1)

Where it appears

Found in 86 verses

Exodus
17:4, 23:30
Leviticus
25:52
Deuteronomy
7:7, 7:22, 26:5, 28:38, 28:62
Joshua
22:17
Judges
4:19
Ruth
2:7
1 Samuel
14:6, 14:29, 14:43, 17:28
2 Samuel
12:8, 16:1, 19:36
1 Kings
17:10, 17:12
2 Kings
10:18
1 Chronicles
16:19
2 Chronicles
12:7, 29:34
Ezra
9:8
Nehemiah
2:12, 7:4
Proverbs
5:14, 6:10, 15:16, 16:8, 24:33
Ecclesiastes
5:12, 9:14, 10:1
Song of Solomon
3:4
Jeremiah
42:2, 51:33
Ezekiel
5:3, 11:16, 16:47, 34:18
Daniel
11:23, 11:34
Hosea
1:4, 8:10
Haggai
1:6, 1:9, 2:6
Zechariah
1:15

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