Strong’s H4962 · Hebrew
מַת
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Origin from the same as מָתַי (H4970);
Meaning properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
In the King James Version [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.
In 20 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Deuteronomy 2:34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
- Deuteronomy 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
- Deuteronomy 4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- Deuteronomy 26:5And 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:
- Deuteronomy 28:62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
- Deuteronomy 33:6Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
- Job 11:3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 11:11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Job 19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
- Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
- Job 31:31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
- Psalms 17:14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- Psalms 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Psalms 105:12When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
- Isaiah 3:25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
- Isaiah 5:13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- Isaiah 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 44:28Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
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.