Original Language Studio
Song of Solomon 3:4
“It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.” (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
- כִּ — preposition
- מְעַט֙ — 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.