{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4592",
  "lemma": "מְעַט",
  "transliteration": "mᵉʻaṭ",
  "definition": "a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)",
  "kjv": "almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter…",
  "occurrences": 102,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H4591",
      "lemma": "מָעַט",
      "transliteration": "mâʻaṭ",
      "meaning": "to pare off, i.e. lessen",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מְעַט 101 subst. a little, fewness, a few"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:4",
      "text": "Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:17",
      "text": "The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:43",
      "text": "behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=43"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 26:10",
      "text": "Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 30:15",
      "text": "Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 30:30",
      "text": "For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 43:2",
      "text": "When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 43:11",
      "text": "Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 44:25",
      "text": "Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 47:9",
      "text": "Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=9"
    }
  ],
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