H4591 מָעַט
mâʻaṭ — properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
KJV: suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, [idiom] borrow a, give, make) few (in number…
Occurs 21 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מָעַט] vb. be or become small, diminished, few
- Qal be too small for a lamb
- Pi. become few
- Hiph. make small or few, diminish
Where it occurs
- Exodus 12:4 — and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to…
- Exodus 16:17 — The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
- Exodus 16:18 — When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They…
- Exodus 30:15 — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of…
- Leviticus 25:16 — According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you…
- Leviticus 26:22 — I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few…
- Numbers 11:32 — The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered…
- Numbers 26:54 — To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone…
- Numbers 33:54 — You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger groups you shall give a larger inheritance…
- Numbers 35:8 — Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take…