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Hebrew adjective · H6810

צָעִיר

tsairtsaw-eer'

little

23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: tsâʻîyr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6810is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6810

little; (in number) few; (in age) young, (in value) ignoble

The King James renders it: least, little (one), small (one), [phrase] young(-er, -est).

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

tsair is rendered "little". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:31One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

Genesis 19:31הַצְּעִירָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-three uses are in Genesis.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the young5
  • insignificant3
  • young3
  • and the young2
  • the insignificant2
  • young of2
  • and the little1
  • and with young his1
  • from a small1
  • servants its1
  • servants their1
  • young his1

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.

צָעִיףtsaiphshawlUses3

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • הַצְּעִירָ֖ה2
  • וְהַצָּעִ֖יר2
  • צְעִירֵ֣י2
  • הַצָּעִ֔יר1
  • הַצָּעִ֖יר1
  • הַצְּעִירָ֔ה1
  • הַצְּעִירָה֙1
  • הַצְּעִרָ֔ה1
  • וּבִצְעִיר֖וֹ1
  • וְהַצְּעִירָ֤ה1
  • מִצְּעִירָ֑ה1
  • צָעִ֡יר1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine singular5HAamsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular5HTd/Aafsa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HAampc
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular2HC/Td/Aamsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular2HTd/Aamsa
  • adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HAampc/Sp3fs
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HAampc/Sp3mp
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HAamsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Aamsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular1HC/Td/Aafsa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa

Genesis

eight uses
  • One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

    Genesis 19:31

    • הַצְּעִירָ֖הhatzeirahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the young
  • The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

    Genesis 19:34

    • הַצְּעִירָ֔הhatzeirahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the young
  • So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

    Genesis 19:35

    • הַצְּעִירָה֙hatzeirahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the young
  • The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.

    Genesis 19:38

    • וְהַצְּעִירָ֤הvehatzeirahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and the young
  • and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

    Genesis 25:23

    • צָעִֽיר׃tzairadjective · masculine singulartagged: young
  • Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

    Genesis 29:26

    • הַצְּעִירָ֖הhatzeirahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the young
  • They were seated before Joseph in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.

    Genesis 43:33

    • וְהַצָּעִ֖ירvehatzairconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the young
  • But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

    Genesis 48:14

    • הַצָּעִ֔ירhatzairthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the young

Joshua

one use
  • At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

    Joshua 6:26

    • וּבִצְעִיר֖וֹuvitziroconjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and with young his

Judges

one use
  • “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

    Judges 6:15

    • הַצָּעִ֖ירhatzairthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the insignificant

1 Samuel

one use
  • Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”

    1 Samuel 9:21

    • הַצְּעִרָ֔הhatzeirahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the insignificant

1 Kings

one use
  • In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

    1 Kings 16:34

    • צְעִירוֹ֙tzeiroadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: young his

Job

two uses
  • “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

    Job 30:1

    • צְעִירִ֥יםtzeirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: young
  • So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

    Job 32:6

    • צָ֘עִ֤ירtzairadjective · masculine singulartagged: young

Psalms

two uses
  • There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

    Psalms 68:27

    • צָעִ֡ירtzairadjective · masculine singulartagged: insignificant
  • I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

    Psalms 119:141

    • צָעִ֣ירtzairadjective · masculine singulartagged: insignificant

Isaiah

one use
  • The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

    Isaiah 60:22

    • וְהַצָּעִ֖ירvehatzairconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the little

Jeremiah

four uses
  • The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

    Jeremiah 14:3

    • צְעִירֵיהֶ֖םtzeoreihemadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: servants their
  • Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.

    Jeremiah 48:4

    • צְעִירֶֽיהָ׃tzeoreihaadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: servants its
  • Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

    Jeremiah 49:20

    • צְעִירֵ֣יtzeireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: young of
  • Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

    Jeremiah 50:45

    • צְעִירֵ֣יtzeireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: young of

Daniel

one use
  • From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.

    Daniel 8:9

    • מִצְּעִירָ֑הmitzeirahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from a small

Micah

one use
  • But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

    Micah 5:2

    • צָעִיר֙tzairadjective · masculine singulartagged: insignificant

The letters

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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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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