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# זְעֵיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2191

**a little** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a little [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2191/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְעֵיר: little [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2191/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a little (diminutive form Ol§ 180 LagBN 85)— of quantity, amount (of instruction) ז׳ שָׁם ז׳ שָׁם Is 28:10, 13 (in both ‖ צַו, קַו). of time, כַּתַּר־לִי ז׳ וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ Jb 36:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a little (5).

## In the verses

[Job 36:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.2/#tree)

כַּתַּר־לִ֣י זְ֭עֵיר וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ כִּ֤י ע֖וֹד לֶאֱל֣וֹהַּ מִלִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* wait for me a.little so that I.may.inform.you (dm).that still \[are\].for God words

*JPS 1917:* Suffer me a little, and I will tell thee; for there are yet words on God's behalf.

[Isaiah 28:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.10/#tree)

כִּ֣י צַ֤ו לָצָו֙ צַ֣ו לָצָ֔ו קַ֥ו לָקָ֖ו קַ֣ו לָקָ֑ו זְעֵ֥יר שָׁ֖ם זְעֵ֥יר שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) command to command command to command line to line line to line a.little there a.little there

*JPS 1917:* For it is precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line; here a little, there a little.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2191.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2191/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).