H4591 Definition

Strong's number
H4591
Lemma
מָעַט
Transliteration
mâʻaṭ
Pronunciation
maw-at'
Strong's definition
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective) suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, [idiom] borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, ([idiom] give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing. a primitive root;

21 instances of the word מָעַט mâʻaṭ (H4591)

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  • 2 Kings 4:3 - Then he said borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours thee vessels even empty borrow not a few

  • Nehemiah 9:32 - Now therefore our God God the great the mighty and the terrible who keepest covenant and mercy seem little before let not all the trouble thee that hath come of the kings on our princes and on our priests and on our prophets and on our fathers and on all thy people since the time of the kings of Assyria since the time

  • Jeremiah 10:24 - correct O LORD me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing

  • Numbers 11:32 - stood up And the people all that day and all that night all that day and all the next and they gathered the quails he that gathered least and they gathered ten homers and they spread and they spread for themselves round about the camp

  • Ecclesiastes 12:3 - In the day shall tremble when the keepers of the house shall bow and the strong cease themselves and the grinders because they are few be darkened and those that look out of the windows

  • Exodus 12:4 - too little And if the household be for the lamb take let him and his neighbour next And if the household it according to the number of the souls every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb

  • Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but he that gathereth by labour shall increase

  • Exodus 16:17 - did And the children of Israel so and gathered some more some less

  • Exodus 16:18 - And when they did mete it with an omer had nothing over he that gathered much and he that gathered little had no lack every man according to his eating they gathered

  • Isaiah 21:17 - And the residue of the number of archers the mighty men of the children of Kedar shall be diminished for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken

  • Leviticus 25:16 - According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price According thou shalt diminish of years thou shalt diminish the price of it for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell

  • Leviticus 26:22 - I will also send beasts wild among you which shall rob you of your children and destroy your cattle and make you few in number shall be desolate and your high ways

  • Numbers 26:54 - To many thou shalt give the more inheritance and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance to every one according to those that were numbered be given inheritance

  • Jeremiah 29:6 - Take wives and beget and daughters and daughters Take and daughters wives and daughters and give to husbands and beget and daughters and daughters that ye may be increased there and not diminished

  • Ezekiel 29:15 - of the kingdoms It shall be the basest neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations for I will diminish them that they shall no more rule itself any more above the nations

  • Exodus 30:15 - The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when they give an offering unto the LORD to make an atonement for your souls

  • Jeremiah 30:19 - And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry and I will multiply them and they shall not be few I will also glorify them and they shall not be small

  • Numbers 33:54 - And ye shall divide the land by lot among your families and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance falleth by lot according to the tribes of your fathers And ye shall divide

  • Numbers 35:8 - And the cities shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel from them that have many ye shall give many but from them that have few ye shall give few every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give And the cities unto the Levites

  • Psalms 107:38 - He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly not their cattle and suffereth

  • Psalms 107:39 - Again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow

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