{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4591",
  "lemma": "מָעַט",
  "transliteration": "mâʻaṭ",
  "definition": "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…",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[מָעַט] vb. be or become small, diminished, few",
    "Qal be too small for a lamb",
    "Pi. become few",
    "Hiph. make small or few, diminish"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:4",
      "text": "and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:17",
      "text": "The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:18",
      "text": "When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:15",
      "text": "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 25:16",
      "text": "According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 26:22",
      "text": "I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 11:32",
      "text": "The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 26:54",
      "text": "To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=54"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 33:54",
      "text": "You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger groups you shall give a larger inheritance…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/33?v=54"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 35:8",
      "text": "Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=8"
    }
  ],
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