# H4591 מָעַט

מָעַט (mâʻaṭ), Strong’s H4591: 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…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=17) — The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
- [Exodus 16:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/33?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=8) — Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take…