זְעֵיר
zᵉʻêyr · H2191 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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little
State in which an event is limited as far as duration, quantity, and/or intensity are concerned
ExamplesJob 36:2 “Wait for me a little, and I will show you That there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.
Isaiah 28:10 “For He says, ‘Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’”
Isaiah 28:13 So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁםthere 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- μικρόν mikrón · G3397 · a small space of time or degree
- Greek μικρόν specifically denotes smallness in temporal or degree dimensions (a short time, a slight degree), whereas Hebrew זְעֵיר expresses general smallness without inherent temporal or scalar restriction.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Little002001001038
- זְעֵיר occurs in a small handful of passages meaning "a little" in a diminutive, quantitative sense, as in Job 36:2 ("Wait for me a little") and the repeated "a little here, a little there" of Isaiah 28:10 and 28:13.
- Frequency002001003009
- The same word's repetition within a single verse — "a little here, a little there" (Isaiah 28:10, 28:13) — genuinely illustrates an incremental, piecemeal frequency or repeated small measure, distinct from its ordinary quantitative sense.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2191. zeer זְעֵיר noun [masculine] a little (diminutive form Ol§ 180 LagBN 85) — 1 of…
זְעֵיר noun [masculine] a little (diminutive form Ol§ 180 LagBN 85) —
1 of quantity, amount (of instruction) ׳ז ז ׳שָׁם שָׁם Isa 28:10, Isa 28:13 (in both || קַו צַו,).
2 of time, ז ׳כַּתַּרלִֿי וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ Job 36:2.
זער (ᵑ7 Syriac, be small; Biblical Hebrew זְעֵיר √ זְער; Egyptian Aramaic זער Cooke213, Nabataean זעירא, Palmyrene זערא Lzb268 SAC49).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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