Strong's Hebrew · H4591
H4591 mâʻaṭ
מָעַט
maw-at'
to diminish
Looking for Greek G4591 sēmaínō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H4591. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
mâʻaṭ appears 22 times in Scripture, including Exodus 12:4 and Leviticus 25:16. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
In the King James Version
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.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 22 times in Scripture
“All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.”
“Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.”
“So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.”
“You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.”
“So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.”
“If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.”
“When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.”
“I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.”
“In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
