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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Few

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

65exact KJV occurrences 43Old Testament 22New Testament 25books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 59occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 24:55

And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 3:4

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where few appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4557
מִסְפָּר

miçpâr · mis-pawr'

6 times translated as this KJV form131 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration

Strong's KJV usage: abundance, account, × all, × few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, time.

Strong's first: Numbers 9:20Strong's last: Ezekiel 12:16

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HebrewH4591
מָעַט

mâʻaṭ · maw-at'

4 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

Strong's 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.

Strong's first: Numbers 35:8Strong's last: Jeremiah 30:19

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HebrewH259
אֶחָד

ʼechâd · ekh-awd'

3 times translated as this KJV form942 total Strong's occurrences

a

properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first

Strong's KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

Strong's first: Genesis 27:44Strong's last: Daniel 11:20

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HebrewH4213
מִזְעָר

mizʻâr · miz-awr'

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

fewness; by implication, as superlative diminutiveness

Strong's KJV usage: few, × very.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Isaiah 24:6Strong's last: Isaiah 24:6

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HebrewH7116
קָצֵר

qâtsêr · kaw-tsare'

1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences

a

short (whether in size, number, life, strength or temper)

Strong's KJV usage: few, hasty, small, soon.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 14:1Strong's last: Job 14:1

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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65 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 24:55
no direct Strong's tag

And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

Genesis 27:44
H259

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;

Genesis 29:20
H259

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Genesis 34:30
H4962

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Genesis 47:9
H4592

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Leviticus 25:52
H4592

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

Leviticus 26:22
no direct Strong's tag

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 9:20
H4557

And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.

Numbers 13:18
H4592

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

Numbers 26:54
H4592

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 26:56
H4592

According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

Numbers 35:8
H4592

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.

Numbers 35:8
H4591

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.

Deuteronomy 4:27
H4962

And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 26:5
H4592

And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Deuteronomy 28:62
H4592

And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

Joshua 7:3
H4592

And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.

1 Samuel 14:6
H4592

And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

1 Samuel 17:28
H4592

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

2 Kings 4:3
H4591

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

2 Chronicles 29:34
H4592

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

Nehemiah 2:12
H4592

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

few

FEW, adjective [Latin pauci. The senses of few and small are often united.]

Not many; small in number. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few; but few men, in times of party, regard the maxim.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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