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H4592מְעַטme.at
littlePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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101 occurrences in 92 verses
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Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.
מְעַ֖ט me.'At “[are] few”
Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
הַמְעַט־ (מְעַט) m.'at- “little”
Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.
מְעַט־ me.'at- “a little of”
And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.
מְעָֽט׃ me.'At “little”
And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a grea
בִמְעָֽט׃ (מְעָֽט) m.'At “few”
Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.
מְעַ֖ט me.'At “a little of”
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.
מְעַ֥ט me.'At “a little of”
And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evi
מְעַ֨ט me.'At “[the] fewness of”
I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.
מְעָ֔ט me.'At “little”
And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.
מְעַט֙ me.'At “a little”
Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?
כִּמְעַ֞ט (מְעַ֞ט) m.'At “a little”
So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?
מְעַט־ me.'at- “a little of”
Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal b
וּמְעַט־ (מְעַט) me.'at- “a little of”
Then Jehu got all the people together and said to them, Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.
מְעָ֑ט me.'At “a little”
When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;
כִּמְעַ֖ט (מְעַ֖ט) m.'At “a few”
And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shis
כִּמְעַט֙ (מְעַט֙) m.'At “a little”
There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves
לִמְעָ֔ט (מְעָ֔ט) m.'At “fewness”
And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
כִּמְעַט־ (מְעַט) m.'at- “a little of”מְעַ֖ט me.'At “a little”
And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.
מְעַט֮ me.'At “a few”
Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.
מְעַ֖ט me.'At “[were] few”
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
מְעַ֣ט me.'At “few”מְּעָֽט׃ me.'At “a little”
Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
הַמְעַ֣ט (מְעַ֣ט) m.'At “[too] little”
For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.
מְּעַ֨ט׀ me.'At “a little”
For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.
כִּ֝מְעַ֗ט (מְעַ֗ט) m.'At “a little”
For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.
כִּמְעַ֣ט (מְעַ֣ט) m.'At “a little”