Strong's #6810: tsa`iyr (pronounced tsaw-eer')
or tsanowr {tsaw-ore'}; from 6819; little; (in number) few; (in age) young, (in value) ignoble:--least, little (one), small (one), + young(-er, -est).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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tsâ‛ı̂yr / tsâ‛ôr
1) little, insignificant, young
1a) little, insignificant
1b) insignificant, mean
1c) young, younger, youngest
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from H6819
Usage:
This word is used 22 times:
Genesis 19:31: "And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man"
Genesis 19:34: "on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay last night"
Genesis 19:35: "that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived"
Genesis 19:38: " And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi:"
Genesis 25:23: "shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger."
Genesis 29:26: "done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn."
Genesis 43:33: "before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled one"
Genesis 48:14: "Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head,"
Joshua 6:26: "Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates"
Judges 6:15: "is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
1 Samuel 9:21: "of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families"
1 Kings 16:34: "his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which"
Job 30:1: "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers"
Job 32:6: "answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore"
Psalms 68:27: "There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes"
Psalms 119:141: "I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts."
Isaiah 60:22: "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD"
Jeremiah 14:3: "And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found"
Jeremiah 48:4: "Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard."
Jeremiah 49:20: "the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely"
Jeremiah 50:45: "the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely"
Micah 5:2: "Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth"
