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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.

Nehemiah 7:4
H4592

Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.

Job 10:20
H4592

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Job 14:1
H7116

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 16:22
H4557

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Psalms 105:12
no direct Strong's tag

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

Psalms 105:12
H4592

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

Ecclesiastes 5:2
H4592

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 9:14
H4592

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Ecclesiastes 12:3
H4591

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 10:7
H4592

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Isaiah 10:19
H4557

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

Isaiah 24:6
H4213

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Jeremiah 30:19
H4591

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.

Jeremiah 42:2
H4592

And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

Ezekiel 5:3
H4592

Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

Ezekiel 12:16
H4557

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Daniel 11:20
H259

Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

Matthew 7:14
G3641

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 9:37
G3641

Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;

Matthew 15:34
G3641

And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

Matthew 20:16
G3641

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Matthew 25:21
G3641

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Matthew 25:23
G3641

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

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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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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