Limitless Word
מְעַטmᵉʻaṭ/meh-at'/
HebrewH4592102 occurrences (KJV)

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

KJV renders it: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very.

Where it appears(showing the first 92 of 102)

  • Gen 18:4Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
  • Gen 24:17The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
  • Gen 24:43behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
  • Gen 26:10Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
  • Gen 30:15She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
  • Gen 30:30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
  • Gen 43:2When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
  • Gen 43:11Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
  • Gen 44:25Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’
  • Gen 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
  • Exod 17:4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
  • Exod 23:30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
  • Lev 25:52If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
  • Num 13:18See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
  • Num 16:9Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
  • Num 16:13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
  • Num 26:54To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. To everyone according to those who were counted of him shall his inheritance be given.
  • Num 26:56According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.”
  • Num 33:54You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
  • Num 35:8Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”
  • Deut 7:7Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
  • Deut 7:22Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
  • Deut 26:5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
  • Deut 28:38You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.
  • Deut 28:62You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
  • Josh 7:3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
  • Josh 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
  • Judg 4:19He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.
  • Ruth 2:7She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”
  • 1 Sam 14:6Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
  • 1 Sam 14:29Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
  • 1 Sam 14:43Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”
  • 1 Sam 17:28Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
  • 2 Sam 12:8I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
  • 2 Sam 16:1When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
  • 2 Sam 19:36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
  • 1 Kgs 17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
  • 1 Kgs 17:12She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
  • 2 Kgs 10:18Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
  • 1 Chr 16:19when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
  • 2 Chr 12:7When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
  • 2 Chr 29:34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
  • Ezra 9:8Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.
  • Neh 2:12I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
  • Neh 7:4Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
  • Job 10:20Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
  • Job 15:11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
  • Job 24:24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
  • Job 32:22For I don’t know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.
  • Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
  • Ps 8:5For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.
  • Ps 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
  • Ps 37:16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
  • Ps 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
  • Ps 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
  • Ps 94:17Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
  • Ps 105:12when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
  • Ps 109:8Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
  • Ps 119:87They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
  • Prov 5:14I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
  • Prov 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • Prov 10:20The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
  • Prov 15:16Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
  • Prov 16:8Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
  • Prov 24:33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
  • Eccl 5:2Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
  • Eccl 5:12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
  • Eccl 9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
  • Eccl 10:1Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
  • Song 3:4I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
  • Isa 1:9Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 7:13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
  • Isa 10:7However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
  • Isa 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
  • Isa 16:14But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”
  • Isa 26:20Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
  • Isa 29:17Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
  • Jer 42:2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us;
  • Jer 51:33For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.”
  • Ezek 5:3You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
  • Ezek 11:16“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
  • Ezek 16:20“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
  • Ezek 16:47Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
  • Ezek 34:18Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?
  • Dan 11:23After the treaty made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.
  • Dan 11:34Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.
  • Hos 1:4Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
  • Hos 8:10But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
  • Hag 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
  • Hag 1:9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
  • Hag 2:6For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
  • Zech 1:15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.