צָעַר
tsâʻar · H6819 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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little, young
Literally: to be small; hence: state in which humans are still relatively young
ExamplesZechariah 13:7 “Awake, sword, against My Shepherd, And against the Man, My Associate,” Declares the LORD of armies. “Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.
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to be small, to be insignificant
Literally: to be small; hence: state in which humans are considered unworthy of honor and respect
ExamplesJob 14:21 “His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it; Or they become insignificant, and he does not perceive it.
Jeremiah 30:19 ‘From them will come a song of thanksgiving And the voices of those who celebrate; And I will multiply them and they will not decrease; I will honor them and they will not be insignificant.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 2
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 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 3 words
- קָטֹן qâṭôn · H6994 · to make small, to reduce, to be unworthy of
- Both words are distinct Hebrew verbs expressing smallness or insignificance in overlapping senses.
- שָׁפֵל shâphêl · H8213 · to become low, to be low
- The target lexeme and שָׁפֵל share the sense of being or becoming small, low, or insignificant, functioning as near-synonyms.
- שָׁחַח shâchach · H7817 · to become low, to be in distress
- צָעַר (tsâʻar, H6819) emphasizes smallness and reduction in status or size; שָׁחַח (shâchach, H7817) emphasizes physical bowing/stooping posture extended metaphorically to humiliation or being brought low.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Young002001001073
- This domain's connection to צָעַר is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of being made insignificant rather than youthfulness.
- Insignificant002001002015
- צָעַר means to be brought low or made small, as of the sons who become insignificant without their father's notice in Job 14:21, the people the LORD promises will no longer be insignificant in Jeremiah 30:19, and the little ones scattered when the Shepherd is struck in Zechariah 13:7.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6819. tsaar [צָעַר] verb be, or grow, insignificant (|| זער; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian…
[צָעַר] verb be, or grow, insignificant (|| זער; Late Hebrew id., Assyrian ƒe—êru, be small, Arabic id.; Syriac be insignificant, despicable; צְעַר ᵑ7 transitivedespise, revile; —
Qal Imperfect (opposed to כָּבֵד), 3 masculine plural יִצְעֲרוּ Job 14:21, יִצְעָ֑רוּ Jer 30:19; Participle as substantive הַצֹּעֲרִים Zec 13:7 (i.e. sheep, in figure, compare Now).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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
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