Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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Ezekiel 43:14
And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
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קָטָן
qâṭân · kaw-tawn'
2 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
Strong's KJV usage: least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
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Strong's first: Genesis 1:16Strong's last: Ezekiel 43:14
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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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lesser
LESS'ER, adjective [This word is a corruption; but too well established to be discarded.]
Less; smaller. Authors always write the lesser Asia.
By the same reason, may a man in a state of nature, punish the lesser breaches of that law.
God made the lesser light to rule the night. Genesis 1:16.
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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