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# מִזְעָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4213

**a little** — used 4 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/1502/4213/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִזְעָר: little, trifle, few [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4213/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a little, a trifle, a few. of time עוֹד מְעַט מִזְעָ֑ר Is 10:25; 29:17 yet a trifle, a little = a very little while. of number שְׁאָר מְעַט מִזְעָר Is 16:14 a remnant, a very few (opp. לוֹא כַּבִּיר). In Is 3 without מעט:—ונשׁאר אנושׁ מִזְעָֽר ׃ Is 24:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: fewness (2); of a little (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.25/#tree)

כִּי־ע֖וֹד מְעַ֣ט מִזְעָ֑ר וְכָ֣לָה זַ֔עַם וְאַפִּ֖י עַל־תַּבְלִיתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) yet a.little of.a.little and it.will.be.complete indignation and anger my \[will.be\].on destruction their

*JPS 1917:* For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be accomplished, and Mine anger shall be to their destruction.

[Isaiah 29:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.17/#tree)

הֲלוֹא־עוֹד֙ מְעַ֣ט מִזְעָ֔ר וְשָׁ֥ב לְבָנ֖וֹן לַכַּרְמֶ֑ל וְהַכַּרְמֶ֖ל לַיַּ֥עַר יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* ? not yet a.little of.a.little and it.will.turn Lebanon into (the) orchard and the orchard to (the) forest it.will.be.considered

*JPS 1917:* Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4213.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4213/): 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).