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Numbers 16:13

“Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מְעַטmᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'
H4592 · Hebrew
Definition
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
Derivation
or מְעָט; from H4591 (מָעַט);
KJV renderings
almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very.
Grammar
  • הַ — particle (interrogative)
  • מְעַ֗ט — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HTi/Ncmsa
Usage
Occurs 101 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 18:4Genesis 24:17Genesis 24:43Genesis 26:10Genesis 30:15

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מְעַט here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.