1. מעט
to be small, be few, diminish
The corpus record — Hebrew
מְעַט
meat
to be small, be few, diminish
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 101 · 3.29/10k
Senses
2. מְעַט
a little, fewness, a few
3. מְעַט
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
Attestations
- מְעַט Genesis 18:4 (BHS)
- מְעַט Genesis 24:17 (BHS)
- מְעַט Genesis 24:43 (BHS)
- כִּ֠/מְעַט Genesis 26:10 (BHS)
- הַ/מְעַט֙ Genesis 30:15 (BHS)
- מְעַט֩ Genesis 30:30 (BHS)
6 of 101 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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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.