מְעַט
mᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מְעָט; from H4591 (מָעַט);
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › to surround and contain
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know that works to surround and contain.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מְעַט above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
101 occurrences · 101 OT · 0 NT · 52 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a little13 · 25%
- few6 · 12%
- us a little3 · 6%
- is it a small thing2 · 4%
- and a little2 · 4%
- and few2 · 4%
- yet a little2 · 4%
- be few2 · 4%
- little2 · 4%
- and little2 · 4%
- little while2 · 4%
- might lightly1 · 2%
- thee by little1 · 2%
- unto her, is it a small matter1 · 2%
- for ye were the fewest1 · 2%
- i pray thee, a little1 · 2%
- and to the fewer1 · 2%
- and to few1 · 2%
- seemeth it but a small thing1 · 2%
- but few1 · 2%
- by little1 · 2%
- but from them that have few1 · 2%
- they be almost1 · 2%
- for it was little1 · 2%
- let a little1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.