# H4592 מְעַט

מְעַט (mᵉʻaṭ), Strong’s H4592: a little or few (often adverbial or compar.) KJV: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter…. Occurs 102 times.

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*mᵉʻaṭ* — a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

KJV: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter…

Derived from [מָעַט mâʻaṭ](https://besorah.bible/word/H4591) (to pare off, i.e. lessen)

Occurs 102 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מְעַט 101 subst. a little, fewness, a few

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 18:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=4) — Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
- [Genesis 24:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=17) — The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
- [Genesis 24:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=43) — behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will…
- [Genesis 26:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=10) — Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you…
- [Genesis 30:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=15) — Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes…
- [Genesis 30:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=30) — For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I…
- [Genesis 43:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=2) — When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a…
- [Genesis 43:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=11) — Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your…
- [Genesis 44:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=25) — Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
- [Genesis 47:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=9) — Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have…