# מָעַט (maat)

Israeli respelling: ma-at. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4591. 21 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)

King James renderings: suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, [idiom] borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, ([idiom] give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/maat-h4591

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/4) — And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls…
- [Exodus 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/17) — And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
- [Exodus 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/18) — And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered ever…
- [Exodus 30:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/15) — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an ato…
- [Leviticus 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/16) — According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the pr…
- [Leviticus 26:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/22) — I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your…
- [Numbers 11:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/32) — And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gather…
- [Numbers 26:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/54) — To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given…
- [Numbers 33:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/54) — And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the…
- [Numbers 35:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/8) — And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but f…
- [2 Kings 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/3) — Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- [Nehemiah 9:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/32) — Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little be…
- [Psalms 107:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/38) — He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
- [Psalms 107:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/39) — Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
- [Proverbs 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/11) — Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/3) — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are fe…
- [Isaiah 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/17) — And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spo…
- [Jeremiah 10:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/24) — O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
- [Jeremiah 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/6) — Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and…
- [Jeremiah 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/19) — And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I wi…
- [Ezekiel 29:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/15) — It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall…