Little
מִצְעָרStrong’s H4705mitsar (mits-ar)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mitsar is the Hebrew word usually translated “small place”, “smallness of” and “small thing”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”
Meaning
- A small thingsmall thing · little while (of time)
How it's translated
- a small place 2
- with smallness of 1
- a small thing 1
- for little while 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 24:24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
- Job 8:7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- Isaiah 63:18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Hebrew dictionary
מִצְעָר mitsar · little
1) a small thing 1a) small thing 1b) little while (of time)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “little” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIT'TLE, adjective
- Small in size or extent; not great or large; as a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little table; a little book; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.
- Short in duration; as a little time or season; a little sleep.
- Small in quantity or amount; as a little hay or grass; a little food; a little sum; a little light; a little air or water.
- Of small dignity, power or importance.“When thou wast little in thy own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes?” 1 Samuel 15:17
All definitions and other forms of “little”
- Of small force or effect; slight; inconsiderable; as little attention or exertions; little effort; little care or diligence, little weight.
LIT'TLE, noun
- A small quantity or amount.
- A small space.
- Any thing small, slight or of inconsiderable importance.
- Not much.
LIT'TLE, adverb
- In a small degree; slightly; as, he is little changed.
- Not much; in a small quantity or space of time.
- In some degree; slightly; sometimes preceded by adjective The liquor is a little sour or astringent.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.