Original Language Studio
Numbers 16:9
“Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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)
- מְעַ֣ט — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- 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.
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.