מִצְעָר
mitsʻâr · H4705 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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a small one, a little one
An object that is relatively small in size
ExamplesGenesis 19:20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) so that my life may be saved.”
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few
A relatively small number
Examples2 Chronicles 24:24 Indeed, the army of the Arameans came with a small number of men; yet the LORD handed a very great army over to them, because Judah and Joash had abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
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short time
A relatively short period of time
ExamplesIsaiah 63:18 Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trampled it down.
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insignificant
State in which an event is relatively insignificant
ExamplesJob 8:7 “Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- לto/for 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ · H4592 · few, little, small
- Both terms denote smallness or fewness in quantity or significance, overlapping directly in the senses "little," "small," and "few."
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὀλίγος olígos · G3641 · few, less, little
- Greek ὀλίγος renders Hebrew מִצְעָר in contexts denoting smallness in extent or quantity, functioning as the standard Greek equivalent for this Hebrew diminutive term across size and degree semantics.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Little002001001038
- מִזְעָר describes smallness in size or extent, illustrated at Genesis 19:20 ("this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small") and Job 8:7 ("though your beginning was insignificant").
- Quantity002001001046
- מִזְעָר describes a small quantity or number, illustrated at 2 Chronicles 24:24 ("the army of the Arameans came with a small number of men; yet the LORD handed a very great army over to them").
- Time002002002010
- This domain likely reflects the word's attested sense "a little while," a temporal smallness, though this specific nuance is not directly shown by the sampled citations.
- Trivial002001003016
- This entry carries no independent "Trivial" sense of its own distinct from ordinary smallness; the genuine tagged occurrences (Genesis 19:20, 2 Chronicles 24:24, Job 8:7) concern smallness of size, number, or degree, and the domain is bundle-shared with that core sense.
- Names of Landforms003001008
- This entry carries no independent "Names of Landforms" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme concerns smallness in a general sense, not a landform. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled place name Mizar (מִצְעָר (Mitsʻâr, H4706)); see מִצְעָר (Mitsʻâr, H4706).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4705. mitsar I. מִצְעָר noun masculine a small thing (|| מִזְעָר); — 1 absolute ׳מ a…
I. מִצְעָר noun masculine a small thing (|| מִזְעָר); —
1 absolute ׳מ a small thing, of city Gen 19:20 (twice in verse) (J); of Job's fortunes, מ ׳רֵאשִׁיתְֱ Job 8:7 (opposed to מְאֹר יִשְׂגֶּה); construct אֲנָשִׁים מִצְעַר2Ch 24:24 a few men; of time ׳לַמּ Isa 63:18 for the [a] little while. — Psa 42:7 see II.׳מ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 5 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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