Strong's #4592: m`at (pronounced meh-at')
or miat {meh-awt'}; from 4591; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.):--almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, X very.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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me‛aṭ / me‛âṭ
1) littleness, few, a little, fewness
1a) little, small, littleness, fewness, too little, yet a little
1b) like a little, within a little, almost, just, hardly, shortly, little worth
Part of Speech: substantive
Relation: from H4591
Usage:
This word is used 101 times:
Genesis 18:4: " Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under"
Genesis 24:17: "her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher."
Genesis 24:43: "water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;"
Genesis 26:10: "thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought"
Genesis 30:15: "And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's"
Genesis 30:30: "For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD"
Genesis 43:2: "their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food."
Genesis 43:11: "in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey,"
Genesis 43:11: "the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh,"
Genesis 44:25: "said, Go again, and buy us a little food."
Genesis 47:9: "are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life"
Exodus 17:4: "shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone"
Exodus 23:30: " By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased,"
Exodus 23:30: "By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased,"
Leviticus 25:52: "And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count"
Numbers 13:18: "whether they be strong or weak, few or many;"
Numbers 16:9: " Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation"
Numbers 16:13: " Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey,"
Numbers 26:54: "To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance"
Numbers 26:56: "shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few."
Numbers 33:54: "ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be"
Numbers 35:8: "from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few:"
Deuteronomy 7:7: "than any people; for ye were the fewest of all"
Deuteronomy 7:22: "those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not"
Deuteronomy 7:22: "nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume"
Deuteronomy 26:5: "into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation,"
Deuteronomy 28:38: "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust"
Deuteronomy 28:62: "And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven"
Joshua 7:3: "thither; for they are but few."
Joshua 22:17: "Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed"
Judges 4:19: "And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty."
Ruth 2:7: "until now, that she tarried a little in the house."
1 Samuel 14:6: "to save by many or by few."
1 Samuel 14:29: "have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey."
1 Samuel 14:43: "told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod"
1 Samuel 17:28: "whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know"
2 Samuel 12:8: "of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such"
2 Samuel 16:1: "And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant"
2 Samuel 19:36: "Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why"
1 Kings 17:10: "her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."
1 Kings 17:12: "but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse:"
2 Kings 10:18: "served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much."
1 Chronicles 16:19: "When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers"
2 Chronicles 12:7: "therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out"
2 Chronicles 29:34: "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay"
Ezra 9:8: "And now for a little space grace hath been showed from the LORD"
Ezra 9:8: "that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage."
Nehemiah 2:12: "And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told"
Nehemiah 7:4: "was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not"
Job 10:20: "Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,"
