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# מִצְעָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4705

**a small thing** — 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 small thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4705/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְעָר²: n.m. small thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4705/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a small thing (‖ מִזְעָר);— abs. מ׳ a small thing, of city Gn 19:20(×2) (J); of Job’s fortunes, רֵאשִׁיתְךָ מ׳ Jb 8:7 (opp. יִשְׂגֶּה מְאֹד); cstr. מִצְעַר אֲנָשִׁים 2 Ch 24:24 a few men; of time לַמּ׳ Is 63:18 for the \[a\] little while.—ψ 42:7 v. ii. מ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] a small place (1); a small number (1); a small place (1).

## In the verses

[Job 8:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.7/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣ מִצְעָ֑ר וְ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ יִשְׂגֶּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be beginning your a.small.thing and future your it.will.grow exceedingly

*JPS 1917:* And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

[Isaiah 63:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.18/#tree)

לַמִּצְעָ֕ר יָרְשׁ֖וּ עַם־קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ צָרֵ֕ינוּ בּוֹסְס֖וּ מִקְדָּשֶֽׁךָ׃

*Word for word:* for.(the) small time they.possessed the.people your.holiness your foes our they.have.trodden.down sanctuary your

*JPS 1917:* Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out, our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4705.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4705/): 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).