H4592 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)

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Nehemiah 2:12 - And I arose in the night I and some with me neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem neither was there any beast neither was there any beast that I rode upon

  • Psalms 2:12 - Kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way is kindled but a little when his wrath Blessed are all they that put their trust

  • 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

  • Judges 4:19 - And he said and gave him drink unto her Give me I pray thee a little water for I am thirsty And she opened a bottle of milk and gave him drink and covered

  • Ecclesiastes 5:2 - Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God God is in heaven and thou upon earth any thing be few

  • Ezekiel 5:3 - Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number and bind them in thy skirts

  • Ecclesiastes 5:12 - is sweet The sleep of a labouring man little or much whether he eat but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep

  • Proverbs 5:14 - I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly

  • Proverbs 6:10 - Yet a little sleep Yet a little slumber Yet a little folding of the hands to sleep

  • Joshua 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua and said go up and make not all the people thousand men but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai to labour and make not all the people thither for they are but few

  • Nehemiah 7:4 - Now the city was large and great but the people were few therein and the houses were not builded

  • Deuteronomy 7:7 - you because ye were more in number than any people did not set his love The LORD upon you nor choose for ye were the fewest in number than any people

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 7:22 - will put out And the LORD thy God nations those before and little and little thou mayest not consume them at once increase lest the beasts of the field

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

  • 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

  • Ezra 9:8 - And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God to leave us a remnant to escape and give us a nail place in his holy may lighten our eyes our God and give reviving And now for a little in our bondage

  • Ecclesiastes 9:14 - city There was a little men and few within it and there came king a great against it and besieged it and built bulwarks a great

  • Ecclesiastes 10:1 - flies Dead a stinking savour to send forth cause the ointment of the apothecary him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour folly so doth a little

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 10:18 - gathered And Jehu all the people and said unto them Ahab served Baal a little And Jehu served him much

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

  • Proverbs 10:20 - silver is as choice The tongue of the just the heart of the wicked is little worth

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

  • Ezekiel 11:16 - Therefore say Therefore say the Lord GOD Although I have cast them far off among the heathen and although I have scattered in the countries sanctuary yet will I be to them as a little in the countries where they shall come

  • Daniel 11:23 - And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully for he shall come up and shall become strong with a small people

  • Daniel 11:34 - Now when they shall fall they shall be holpen help with a little shall cleave but many to them with flatteries

  • 2 Chronicles 12:7 - saw And when the LORD They have humbled themselves the word And when the LORD came to Shemaiah saying They have humbled themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance shall not be poured out and my wrath upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak

  • 2 Samuel 12:8 - And I gave house and thy master's wives and thy master's into thy bosom And I gave house of Israel and of Judah and if that had been too little I would moreover have given and such things and such things

  • Numbers 13:18 - And see the land what it is and the people that dwelleth therein whether they be strong or weak few or many

  • 1 Samuel 14:6 - said And Jonathan to the young man that bare his armour and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised will work it may be that the LORD it may be that the LORD for us for there is no restraint to save by many or by few

  • 1 Samuel 14:29 - Then said Jonathan hath troubled My father the land see have been enlightened I pray you how mine eyes because I tasted a little of this honey

  • 1 Samuel 14:43 - him and said Then Saul And Jonathan Tell me what thou hast done Tell And Jonathan him and said I did but I did but with the end of the rod that was in mine hand a little honey I must die

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

  • Proverbs 15:16 - Better is little with the fear of the LORD treasure than great and trouble

  • 2 Samuel 16:1 - And when David past was a little the top of the hill behold Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of asses saddled and an hundred loaves of bread and an hundred bunches of raisins and an hundred of summer fruits and a bottle of wine

  • Proverbs 16:8 - Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right

  • Numbers 16:9 - Seemeth it but a small thing hath separated unto you that the God of Israel the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister

  • Numbers 16:13 - Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness that a prince a prince

  • 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

  • 1 Chronicles 16:19 - When ye were but few even a few and strangers

  • Ezekiel 16:20 - Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters whom thou hast borne unto me and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured a small matter Is this of thy whoredoms

  • Ezekiel 16:47 - after their ways Yet hast thou not walked after their abominations nor done little but as if that were a very thing thou wast corrupted more than they after their ways

  • Exodus 17:4 - cried And Moses unto the LORD saying What shall I do unto this people they be almost ready to stone

  • 1 Kings 17:10 - So he arose to Zarephath And when he came to the gate of the city woman behold the widow was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said Fetch me I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink

  • 1 Kings 17:12 - And she said liveth As the LORD thy God I have not a cake but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse and behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die

  • 1 Samuel 17:28 - heard And Eliab brother his eldest when he spake was kindled anger And Eliab against David and he said Why camest thou down hither and with whom hast thou left few sheep those in the wilderness I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart that thou mightest see the battle Why camest thou down

  • Genesis 18:4 - be fetched I pray you Let a little water and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree

  • 2 Samuel 19:36 - a little way over Thy servant Jordan and why should the king recompense and why should the king it me with such a reward

  • Joshua 22:17 - too little Is the iniquity of Peor for us from which we are not cleansed until this day although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD

  • Exodus 23:30 - By little By little I will drive them out from before thee until thou be increased and inherit the land

  • Genesis 24:17 - ran And the servant to meet her and said Let me I pray thee drink a little water of thy pitcher

  • 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

  • Proverbs 24:33 - Yet a little sleep Yet a little slumber Yet a little folding of the hands to sleep

  • Genesis 24:43 - Behold I stand by the well of water and it shall come to pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and I say to drink I pray thee a little of water of thy pitcher

  • Leviticus 25:52 - but few And if there remain unto his years unto his years of jubile then he shall count with him and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption

  • Deuteronomy 26:5 - And 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

  • Genesis 26:10 - said And Abimelech What is this thou hast done might lightly have lien unto us one of the people with thy wife and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness

  • 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

  • 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

  • Numbers 26:56 - According to the lot thereof be divided shall the possession between many and few

  • Deuteronomy 28:38 - seed much Thou shalt carry into the field but little and shalt gather shall consume for the locust

  • Deuteronomy 28:62 - And ye shall be left in number few whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 29:34 - But the priests were too few so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings did help wherefore their brethren the Levites was ended them till the work had sanctified But the priests the Levites were more upright in heart had sanctified But the priests

  • Genesis 30:15 - And she said unto her Is it a small matter and wouldest thou take away and wouldest thou take away mandrakes my son's And she said also And Rachel Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for mandrakes my son's

  • Genesis 30:30 - For it was little which thou hadst before I came and it is now increased unto a multitude hath blessed and the LORD thee since my coming and now when shall I provide for mine own house

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

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 34:18 - Seemeth it a small thing of your pastures the good unto you to have eaten up the residue of your pastures but ye must tread down with your feet of the deep waters and to have drunk the residue with your feet but ye must foul

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • Genesis 43:2 - And it came to pass when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt said their father unto them Go again buy us a little food

  • Genesis 43:11 - said Israel And their father unto them If it must be so now do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down a present a little balm a little honey spices and myrrh nuts and almonds

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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