Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H4592: מְעַט (mᵉʻaṭ) Definition

Strong's number
H4592
Lemma
מְעַט
Transliteration
mᵉʻaṭ
Pronunciation
meh-at'
Strong's definition
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.) almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very. or מְעָט; from H4591 (מָעַט);

92 instances of the word מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ (H4592)


  • Genesis 44:25 - said And our father Go again and buy us a little food

  • Genesis 47:9 - said And Jacob unto Pharaoh The days of the years of my pilgrimage and thirty are an hundred of the years few and evil The days of the years of my life been and have not attained The days of the years of my life of my fathers The days of my pilgrimage

  • Haggai 1:6 - Ye have sown much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ye drink but ye are not filled with drink ye clothe you but there is none warm and he that earneth wages and he that earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes

  • Haggai 1:9 - Ye looked for much and lo it came to little and when ye brought it home I did blow Because upon it Why saith the LORD of hosts Because it home that is waste and ye run every man it home

  • Haggai 2:6 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry

  • Hosea 1:4 - said And the LORD unto him Call his name Jezreel for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood Jezreel of the house of Jehu and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel

  • Hosea 8:10 - Yea though they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes

  • Isaiah 1:9 - Except the LORD of hosts had left remnant unto us a very small as Sodom we should have been unto Gomorrah and we should have been like

  • Isaiah 7:13 - And he said Hear ye now O house of David Is it a small thing but will ye weary but will ye weary my God

  • Isaiah 10:7 - Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think to destroy not so neither doth his heart and cut off nations not a few

  • Isaiah 10:25 - little while For yet a very shall cease and the indignation and mine anger in their destruction

  • Isaiah 16:14 - hath spoken But now the LORD saying Within three as the years as the years of an hireling shall be contemned and the glory of Moab multitude with all that great and the remnant shall be very small and feeble

  • Isaiah 26:20 - my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thyself as it were for a little moment be overpast until the indignation

  • Isaiah 29:17 - little while Is it not yet a very shall be turned and Lebanon and the fruitful field and the fruitful field as a forest shall be esteemed

  • Jeremiah 42:2 - And said unto Jeremiah the prophet be accepted Let we beseech thee our supplication before thee and pray for us unto the LORD thy God even for all this remnant for we are left but a few of many as thine eyes do behold

  • Jeremiah 51:33 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor and the time to thresh her yet a little while shall come and the time of her harvest

  • Job 10:20 - a little Are not my days cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little

  • Job 15:11 - small Are the consolations of God thing with thee is there any secret

  • Job 24:24 - They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low they are taken out as the tops of the ears of corn as all other and cut off

  • Job 32:22 - For I know not to give flattering titles would soon take me away in so doing my maker