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H4592מְעַטme.at

littlePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 11
  2. 3
  3. 1
  4. 7
  5. 6
  6. 2
  7. 1
  8. 1
  9. 4
  10. 3
  11. 2
  12. 1
  13. 1
  14. 2
  15. 2
  16. 2
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 5
  19. 10
  20. 10
  21. 4
  22. 1
  23. 7
  24. 2
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 5
  27. 2
  28. 2
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. 3
  38. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

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101 occurrences in 92 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Isaiah 26:20

    Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

    כִמְעַט־ (מְעַט) m.'at- “a little of”

  2. Isaiah 29:17

    In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.

    מְעַ֣ט me.'At “a little of”

  3. Jeremiah 42:2

    And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

    מְעַט֙ me.'At “a few”

  4. Jeremiah 51:33

    For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.

    מְעַ֔ט me.'At “a little”

  5. Ezekiel 5:3

    And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.

    מְעַ֣ט me.'At “a few”

  6. Ezekiel 11:16

    For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they

    מְעַ֔ט me.'At “a little”

  7. Ezekiel 16:20

    And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

    הַמְעַ֖ט (מְעַ֖ט) m.'At “little”

  8. Ezekiel 16:47

    Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

    כִּמְעַ֣ט (מְעַ֣ט) m.'At “a little”

  9. Ezekiel 34:18

    Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?

    הַמְעַ֣ט (מְעַ֣ט) m.'At “[too] little”

  10. Daniel 11:23

    And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,

    בִּמְעַט־ (מְעַט) m.'at- “fewness of”

  11. Daniel 11:34

    Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.

    מְעָ֑ט me.'At “a little”

  12. Hosea 1:4

    And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

    מְעַ֗ט me.'At “a little”

  13. Hosea 8:10

    But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

    מְּעָ֔ט me.'At “a few”

  14. Haggai 1:6

    Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

    מְעָ֗ט me.'At “little”

  15. Haggai 1:9

    You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

    לִמְעָ֔ט (מְעָ֔ט) m.'At “little”

  16. Haggai 2:6

    For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;

    מְעַ֣ט me.'At “[is] a little”

  17. Zechariah 1:15

    And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

    מְּעָ֔ט me.'At “a little”