Hebrew verb · H6994
קָטֹן
qatonkaw-tone'
be small
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâṭôn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6994is 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) · H6994
to diminish, i.e. be (causatively, make) diminutive or (figuratively) of no account
The King James renders it: be a (make) small (thing), be not worthy.
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
qaton is rendered "be small". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:10I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Genesis 32:10קָטֹ֜נְתִּי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it was small2
- I am insignificant1
- to make small1
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.
All 4, 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
- וַתִּקְטַן֩1
- וַתִּקְטַ֨ן1
- לְהַקְטִ֤ין1
- קָטֹ֜נְתִּי1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3fs2Hc/Vqw3fs
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vhcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
Genesis
one use
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
- קָטֹ֜נְתִּיkatonetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am insignificant
2 Samuel
one use
And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?
- וַתִּקְטַן֩vatiktanHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was small
1 Chronicles
one use
And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God.
- וַתִּקְטַ֨ןvatiktanHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it was small
Amos
one use
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- לְהַקְטִ֤יןlehaktinpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make small
The letters
Gematria 159· 809 mispar gadol
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.