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:
Job 10:20: "cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,"
Job 15:11: "Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with"
Job 24:24: "They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops"
Job 32:22: "not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away."
Psalms 2:12: "when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust"
Psalms 8:5: " For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor."
Psalms 37:10: "For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not"
Psalms 37:16: " A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked."
Psalms 73:2: "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped."
Psalms 81:14: " I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries."
Psalms 94:17: "the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence."
Psalms 105:12: "When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers"
Psalms 109:8: "Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
Psalms 119:87: " They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts."
Proverbs 5:14: "I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
Proverbs 6:10: " Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Proverbs 6:10: "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Proverbs 6:10: "sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Proverbs 10:20: "silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth."
Proverbs 15:16: "Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble"
Proverbs 16:8: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right."
Proverbs 24:33: " Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Proverbs 24:33: "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Proverbs 24:33: "sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "therefore let thy words be few."
Ecclesiastes 5:12: "is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich"
Ecclesiastes 9:14: "There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against"
Ecclesiastes 10:1: "of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom"
Song of Solomon 3:4: " It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found"
Isaiah 1:9: "the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like"
Isaiah 7:13: "ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but"
Isaiah 10:7: "and cut off nations not a few."
Isaiah 10:25: "For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in"
Isaiah 16:14: "that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble."
Isaiah 26:20: "thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast."
Isaiah 29:17: "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field"
Jeremiah 42:2: "remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes"
Jeremiah 51:33: "it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come."
Ezekiel 5:3: "Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts."
Ezekiel 11:16: "I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where"
Ezekiel 16:20: "unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,"
Ezekiel 16:47: "nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways."
Ezekiel 34:18: " Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue"
Daniel 11:23: "deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people."
Daniel 11:34: "Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries."
Hosea 1:4: "Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel"
Hosea 8:10: "now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes."
Haggai 1:6: "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink,"
Haggai 1:9: "for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why?"
Haggai 2:6: "Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens,"
