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Strong’s H4592 · Hebrew

מְעַט

mᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'

Origin or מְעָט; from מָעַט (H4591);

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.

In 92 verses of the King James Version

51–92 of 92

  1. Psalms 8:5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
  2. Psalms 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
  3. Psalms 37:16A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
  4. Psalms 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
  5. Psalms 81:14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
  6. Psalms 94:17Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
  7. Psalms 105:12When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
  8. Psalms 109:8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
  9. Psalms 119:87They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
  10. Proverbs 5:14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
  11. Proverbs 6:10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  12. Proverbs 10:20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
  13. Proverbs 15:16Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
  14. Proverbs 16:8Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
  15. Proverbs 24:33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  16. Ecclesiastes 5:2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
  17. Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
  18. Ecclesiastes 9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
  19. Ecclesiastes 10:1Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
  20. Song of Songs 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
  21. Isaiah 1:9Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
  22. Isaiah 7:13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
  23. Isaiah 10:7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
  24. Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
  25. Isaiah 16:14But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
  26. Isaiah 26:20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
  27. Isaiah 29:17Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
  28. Jeremiah 42:2And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted 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 us:)
  29. Jeremiah 51:33For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
  30. Ezekiel 5:3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
  31. Ezekiel 11:16Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
  32. Ezekiel 16:20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
  33. Ezekiel 16:47Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
  34. Ezekiel 34:18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
  35. Daniel 11:23And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
  36. Daniel 11:34Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
  37. Hosea 1:4And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
  38. Hosea 8:10Yea, 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.
  39. Haggai 1:6Ye 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 earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
  40. Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
  41. Haggai 2:6For 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 land;
  42. Zechariah 1:15And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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