1. מָעַט
be, become small, diminished, few
The corpus record — Hebrew
יִמְעַ֣ט
maat · vb
be, become small, diminished, few
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 22 · 0.72/10k
Senses
2. מָעַט
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
Attestations
- יִמְעַ֣ט Exodus 12:4 (BHS)
- וְ/הַ/מַּמְעִֽיט Exodus 16:17 (BHS)
- וְ/הַ/מַּמְעִ֖יט Exodus 16:18 (BHS)
- יַמְעִ֔יט Exodus 30:15 (BHS)
- מְעֹ֣ט Leviticus 25:16 (BHS)
- תַּמְעִ֖יט Leviticus 25:16 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.