- Original: מעט - Transliteration: Ma`at - Phonetic: maw-at' - Definition: 1. to be or become small, be few, be diminished a. (Qal) 1. to diminish 2. to be too small b. (Piel) to become few c. (Hiphil) 1. to make small, make few, diminish 2. to give less - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1228 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to pare off that is lessen; intransitively to be (or causatively to make) small or few (or figuratively ineffective): - suffer to decrease diminish (be X borrow a give make) few (in number -ness) gather least (little) be (seem) little (X give the) less be minished bring to nothing. Total KJV Occurrences: 22 • decrease, 1 Psalm 107:38 • diminish, 2 Leviticus 25:16; Ezekiel 29:15 • diminished, 3 Proverbs 13:11; Isaiah 21:17; Jeremiah 29:6 • few, 4 Numbers 35:8; 2 Kings 4:3; Ecclesiastes 12:3; Jeremiah 30:19 • fewness, 1 Leviticus 25:16 • least, 1 Numbers 11:32 • less, 4 Exodus 16:17; Exodus 30:15; Numbers 26:54; Numbers 33:54 • little, 3 Exodus 12:4; Exodus 16:18; Nehemiah 9:32 • minished, 1 Psalm 107:39 • nothing, 1 Jeremiah 10:24 • number, 1 Leviticus 26:22