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Strong's #6994: qaton (pronounced kaw-tone')

a primitive root (rather denominative from 6996); to diminish, i.e. be (causatively, make) diminutive or (figuratively) of no account:--be a (make) small (thing), be not worthy.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâṭôn

1) to be small, be insignificant

1a) (Qal) to be insignificant

1b) (Hiphil) to make small, reduce significantly

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [rather denominative from H6996]



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Genesis 32:10: " I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which"
2 Samuel 7:19: "And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also"
1 Chronicles 17:17: "And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house"
Amos 8:5: "and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying"









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