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2 Kings 4:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H559 Then he said ויאמר

H1980 Go לכי

H7592 borrow שׁאלי

H3627 thee vessels לך כלים

H4480 abroad מן

H2351 החוץ

H853 מאת

H3605 all כל

H7934 thy neighbours שׁכנכי

H3627 vessels כלים

H7386 even empty רקים

H408 not a few אל

H4591 תמעיטי׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Then

H559 said

H1980 Go

H7592 borrow

thee

H3627 vessels

H4480 abroad

H4480 of

H3605 all

thy

H7934 neighbours

even

H7386 empty

H3627 vessels

H7592 borrow

not

H408 few

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H4591

Hebrew: מָעַט

Transliteration: mâʻaṭ

Pronunciation: maw-at'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: suffer to {decrease} {diminish} ({be} X-(idiom) borrow {a} {give} make) few (in {number} {-ness}) gather least ({little}) be (seem) {little} (X give the) {less} be {minished} bring to nothing.

Definition:

properly to pare {off} that {is} lessen; intransitively to be (or causatively to make) small or few (or figuratively ineffective)

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

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906