מָעַט

If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

Exodus 12:4

• יִמְעַ֣טyimatverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be small

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

Exodus 16:17

• וְהַמַּמְעִֽיט׃vehamamitconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the made little

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

Exodus 16:18

• וְהַמַּמְעִ֖יטvehamamitconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the made little

In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

Exodus 30:15

• יַמְעִ֔יטyamitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make little

You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

Leviticus 25:16

• מְעֹ֣טmeotverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: being small of
• תַּמְעִ֖יטtamitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will make small

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

Leviticus 26:22

• וְהִמְעִ֖יטָהvehimitahHc/Vhq3fstagged: and it will diminish

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

Numbers 11:32

• הַמַּמְעִ֕יטhamamitthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the did little

Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.

Numbers 26:54

• תַּמְעִ֖יטtamitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will make small

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

Numbers 33:54

• תַּמְעִ֣יטtamitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will make small

The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”

Numbers 35:8

• תַּמְעִ֑יטוּtamituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will decrease

“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

2 Kings 4:3

• תַּמְעִֽיטִי׃tamitiverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you make few

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

Nehemiah 9:32

• יִמְעַ֣טyimatverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it be small

He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.

Psalms 107:38

• יַמְעִֽיט׃yamitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made few

When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,

Psalms 107:39

• וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּvaiyimatuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they became few

Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.

Proverbs 13:11

• יִמְעָ֑טyimatverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will become small

on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

Ecclesiastes 12:3

• מִעֵ֔טוּmietuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become few

The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Isaiah 21:17

• יִמְעָ֑טוּyimatuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be few

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 10:24

• תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃tamiteniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you should diminish me

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Jeremiah 29:6

• תִּמְעָֽטוּ׃timatuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you diminish

Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.

Jeremiah 30:19

• יִמְעָ֔טוּyimatuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will diminish

Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.

Ezekiel 29:15

• וְהִ֨מְעַטְתִּ֔יםvehimatimHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will make small them