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# קָטָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6996

**small** — used 47 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

small [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6996/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָטָן: adj. small, young, unimportant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6996/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. small, young, unimportant;—abs. ק׳ Gn 9:24 +; sf. קְטַנָּם (Köii. 1, 74) Je 6:13 +; fs. קְטַנָּה Gn 29:16 +; mpl. קְטַנִּים 2 K 18:24 +; cstr. קְטַנֵּי 1 S 9:21 (v. Dr; We conj. -נִּי, old cstr., cf. HPS), Pr 30:24; fpl. קְטַנּוֹת Ez 16:61 +;— small: especially of children, youth = young, Gn 44:20 (J) 2 S 9:12; 1 K 11:17; 2 K 2:23; 5:2, of sister Ct 8:8; = younger, of two children (often opp. גדול), Gn 9:24; 27:15, 42 (all J), 29:16, 18 (E), 1 S 14:49 (f.; opp. הַבְּכִירָה); of younger sister Ju 15:2, so (fig.) Ez 16:46 and (+ מִן comp.) v 61; brother 1 Ch 24:31; הַקּ׳ youngest son (of several) 1 S 16:11; 17:14; + גָּדוֹל = young and old (v. קָטֹן 1) Je 16:6 cf. 2 Ch 31:15; 34:30. of things: utterance Nu 22:18 (E), weight Dt 25:13, 14, vessels 2 Ch 36:18, animals ψ 104:25 (all opp. גדול); cf. also 2 S 12:3; 1 K 2:20; 17:13; 18:44; 2 K 4:10; Ez 43:14 (opp. גדול), Pr 30:24; Ct 2:15, + prob. Ez 46:22 (v II. \[קָטַר\]); כְּלֵי הַקָּטָן Is 22:24 the vessels of small size (fig.). small: with added idea of weakness, pers. 2 K 18:24 = Is 36:9, city Ec 9:14. = insignificant, (1) tribe 1 S 9:21; (2) pers. (+ גדול; = all persons) Je 6:13; 31:34 Jon 3:5 ψ 115:13 Est 1:5, 20, cf. 1 Ch 12:14 (van d. H. v 13); (3) in gen., יוֹם קְטַנּוֹת Zc 4:10 day of small things.—Vid. also קָטֹן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: small (15); young (14); little (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 115:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.13/#tree)

יְ֭בָרֵךְ יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַ֝קְּטַנִּ֗ים עִם־הַגְּדֹלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.will.bless \[those\].fearing (of).Yahweh (the) small with (the) great

*JPS 1917:* He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

[Proverbs 30:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.24/#tree)

אַרְבָּ֣עָה הֵ֭ם קְטַנֵּי־אָ֑רֶץ וְ֝הֵ֗מָּה חֲכָמִ֥ים מְחֻכָּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* four.\[things\] they \[are\].small.\[things\] of.\[the\].earth and they \[are\].wise.\[things\] made.wise

*JPS 1917:* There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6996.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6996/): 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).