Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2191
זְעֵיר
zeerzeh-ayr'
little
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zᵉʻêyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2191is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2191
small
The King James renders it: little.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zeer is rendered "little". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 36:2“Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God’s behalf.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God’s behalf.
Job 36:2זְ֭עֵיר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a little5
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זְעֵיר | zeer | little | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- זְעֵ֥יר3
- זְ֭עֵיר1
- זְעֵ֣יר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
Job
one use
“Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God’s behalf.
- זְ֭עֵירzeeirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a little
Isaiah
four uses
For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
- זְעֵ֥ירzeeirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a little
- זְעֵ֥ירzeeirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a little
Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- זְעֵ֥ירzeeirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a little
- זְעֵ֣ירzeeirnoun · masculine singulartagged: a little
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.