Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4705
מִצְעָר
mitsarmits-awr'
little
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mitsʻâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4705is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4705
petty (in size or number); adverbially, a short (time)
The King James renders it: little one (while), small.
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
mitsar is rendered "little". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:20Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
Genesis 19:20מִצְעָ֑ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a small place2
- a small thing1
- for the little while1
- with smallness of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִצְוָה | mitsvah | commandment | Uses181 |
| מִצְרִי | Mitsri | Egyptian | Uses70 |
| מִצְנֶפֶת | mitsnepheth | turban | Uses12 |
| מִצְעָד | mitsad | step | Uses3 |
| מִצְרֵף | mitsreph | crucible | Uses2 |
| מִצְפֶּה | mitspeh | lookout | Uses2 |
| מִצְחָה | mitschah | greave | Uses1 |
| מִצְפֻּן | mitspun | treasure | Uses1 |
| מִצְּעִירָה | mitstseirah | little | Usesnot recorded |
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.
4 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
- מִצְעָ֑ר2
- בְמִצְעַ֨ר1
- לַמִּצְעָ֕ר1
- מִצְעָ֛ר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
two uses
Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
- מִצְעָ֑רmitzarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a small place
- מִצְעָ֛רmitzarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a small place
2 Chronicles
one use
Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.
- בְמִצְעַ֨רvemitzarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with smallness of
Job
one use
Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
- מִצְעָ֑רmitzarnoun · masculine singulartagged: a small thing
Isaiah
one use
For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
- לַמִּצְעָ֕רlamitzarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the little while
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.