Worship With Us Sunday School10 AM Sunday Morning11 AM Sunday Evening4 PM Thursday Night7 PM
1377 S 20th St, Louisville, KY 40210 Contact
True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
SEARCH THE KING JAMES BIBLE

Search Scripture without fighting the search box.

Type a word, phrase, reference, or idea. Keep it simple when you want to find something quickly; open Advanced Search when you need SwordSearcher-level control.

KJV Word ExplorerBrowse every indexed Bible word, see frequency, and open a word profile.Ready
ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

מָעַט

H4591 · mâʻaṭ · maw-at' · Hebrew

Open Bible

Strong’s definition

properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)

KJV usage

suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, × borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, (× give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing.

23mapped occurrences
21verses
12KJV renderings
Hebrewlanguage

KJV renderings in this mapping

less 4few 4little 3diminished 3diminish 2fewness 1number 1least 1suffereth 1decrease 1minished 1nothing 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Exodus 12:4Mapped KJV word: little

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

Exodus 16:17Mapped KJV word: less

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

Exodus 16:18Mapped KJV word: little

And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

Exodus 30:15Mapped KJV word: less

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

Leviticus 25:16Mapped KJV word: fewness

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

Leviticus 25:16Mapped KJV word: diminish

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

Leviticus 26:22Mapped KJV word: number

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Numbers 11:32Mapped KJV word: least

And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

Numbers 26:54Mapped KJV word: less

To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.

Numbers 33:54Mapped KJV word: less

And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

Numbers 35:8Mapped KJV word: few

And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.

2 Kings 4:3Mapped KJV word: few

Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

Nehemiah 9:32Mapped KJV word: little

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Psalms 107:38Mapped KJV word: suffereth

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Psalms 107:38Mapped KJV word: decrease

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Psalms 107:39Mapped KJV word: minished

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Proverbs 13:11Mapped KJV word: diminished

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Ecclesiastes 12:3Mapped KJV word: few

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

Isaiah 21:17Mapped KJV word: diminished

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

Jeremiah 10:24Mapped KJV word: nothing

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 29:6Mapped KJV word: diminished

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Jeremiah 30:19Mapped KJV word: few

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Ezekiel 29:15Mapped KJV word: diminish

It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.