Meat מְעַט

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Meat
מְעַט
Transliterationmeat
Strong's numberH4592
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosslittle
Occurrences101 in 92 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (10)

Meat (Hebrew מְעַט, Strong's H4592) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “little”. It occurs 101 times in 92 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) littleness, few, a little, fewness
1a) little, small, littleness, fewness, too little, yet a little
1b) like a little, within a little, almost, just, hardly, shortly, little worth

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVlittle (49), few (22), while (6), almost (5), thing (4), small (3), matter (2), soon (2), lightly (1), fewer (1), fewest (1), way (1), and 4 other renderings
BSBlittle (29), few (13), is it not enough (5), not enough (3), only a few (2), smaller one (2), few indeed (2), instant (2), little while (2), let a little (1), could easily (1), very little (1), and 29 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Meat, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Haggai

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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