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)


  • Psalms 8:5 - lower For thou hast made him a little than the angels him with glory and honour and hast crowned

  • Psalms 37:10 - For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be yea thou shalt diligently consider his place

  • Psalms 37:16 - hath is better A little that a righteous man than the riches wicked of many

  • Psalms 73:2 - were almost gone But as for me my feet had well nigh slipped my steps

  • Psalms 81:14 - I should soon their enemies have subdued against their adversaries and turned my hand

  • Psalms 94:17 - Unless the LORD had been my help had almost dwelt in silence my soul

  • Psalms 105:12 - When they were but a few men in number yea very few and strangers

  • Psalms 109:8 - Let his days be few his office take and let another

  • Psalms 119:87 - They had almost consumed me upon earth but I forsook not thy precepts

  • Ruth 2:7 - And she said I pray you let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers so she came and hath continued even from the morning until now that she tarried in the house a little

  • Song of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them but I found loveth him whom my soul I held him and would not let him go until I had brought house him into my mother's and into the chamber of her that conceived

  • Zechariah 1:15 - sore And I am very displeased with the heathen that are at ease displeased for I was but a little and they helped forward the affliction