Strong's #6996: qatan (pronounced kaw-tawn')
or qaton {kaw-tone'}; from 6962; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance):--least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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qâṭân / qâṭôn
1) young, small, insignificant, unimportant
1a) small
1b) insignificant
1c) young
1d) unimportant
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from H6962
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2009a, 2009b
Usage:
This word is used 101 times:
1 Kings 18:44: "that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's"
1 Kings 22:31: "Fight neither with small nor great, save only"
2 Kings 2:23: "and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city,"
2 Kings 4:10: "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed,"
2 Kings 5:2: "and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited"
2 Kings 5:14: "and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."
2 Kings 18:24: "the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on"
2 Kings 23:2: "and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears"
2 Kings 25:26: "And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose,"
1 Chronicles 12:14: "of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand."
1 Chronicles 24:31: "even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren."
1 Chronicles 25:8: "lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar."
1 Chronicles 26:13: "And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate."
2 Chronicles 15:13: "God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man"
2 Chronicles 18:30: "Fight ye not with small or great, save"
2 Chronicles 21:17: "left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons."
2 Chronicles 22:1: "of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for"
2 Chronicles 31:15: "to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears"
2 Chronicles 36:18: "of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures"
Esther 1:5: "in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court"
Esther 1:20: "to their husbands honor, both to great and small."
Job 3:19: " The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master."
Psalms 104:25: "sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great"
Psalms 115:13: "He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great."
Proverbs 30:24: "There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:"
Ecclesiastes 9:14: " There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against"
Song of Solomon 2:15: "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."
Song of Solomon 8:8: " We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day"
Isaiah 11:6: "and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead"
Isaiah 22:24: "and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to"
Isaiah 36:9: "the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on"
Isaiah 54:7: " For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather"
Isaiah 60:22: " A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD"
Jeremiah 6:13: "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness;"
Jeremiah 8:10: "to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,"
Jeremiah 16:6: "Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither"
Jeremiah 31:34: "for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith"
Jeremiah 42:1: "of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,"
Jeremiah 42:8: "which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,"
Jeremiah 44:12: "by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword"
Jeremiah 49:15: "For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men."
Ezekiel 16:46: "that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand,"
Ezekiel 16:61: "thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant."
Ezekiel 43:14: "cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to"
Amos 6:11: "the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts."
Amos 7:2: "arise? for he is small."
Amos 7:5: "arise? for he is small."
Obadiah 1:2: "Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised."
Jonah 3:5: "sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least"
