maat · be few, too small

What it means

maat (מָעַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be few, too small”.

Be few, be too small for something; make few, reduce.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be few or to be reduced in number or amount.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• decrease ×5
• fewer ×2
• you shall reduce ×2
• I will make them few ×1
• dwindles ×1
• get just a few ×1
• make few ×1
• one who gathered least ×1
• one who gathered little ×1
• seem little ×1
• others ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×4
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Exodus 12:4

  If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house shall take one according to the number of persons; you shall make your count for the lamb each according to what he eats.

• Exodus 16:17

  The sons of Israel did so, and they gathered, some much and some little.

• Exodus 16:18

  But when they measured it with the omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when giving the contribution of YHWH to make expiation for your lives.

• Leviticus 25:16

  The more the years, the more you shall increase its price, and the fewer the years, the more you shall decrease its price; for it is a number of harvests that he is selling to you.

• Leviticus 26:22

  And I will send among you the animals of the field, and they will bereave you and destroy your beasts and make you few, and your roads will become desolate.

• Numbers 11:32

  And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

• Numbers 26:54

  To the large you shall increase his inheritance, and to the small you shall reduce his inheritance; to each his inheritance shall be given according to those counted of him.

• Numbers 33:54

  You shall take as inheritance the land by lot according to your families; to the large you shall increase his inheritance, and to the small you shall reduce his inheritance; wherever the lot falls for him, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall take inheritance.

• Numbers 35:8

  And the cities that you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, from the large you shall take more, and from the small you shall take fewer; each according to his inheritance that they inherit shall give of his cities to the Levites.”

• 2 Kings 4:3

  He said, “Go, ask for yourself vessels from outside, from all your neighbors, empty vessels; do not get just a few.

• Nehemiah 9:32

  And now, our Elohim, the great, mighty, and fearsome El, who keeps the covenant and the loyal love, do not let all the hardship that has found us seem little before you, for our kings, for our officials, for our priests, for our prophets, for our fathers, and for all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

• Psalms 107:38

  And he blesses them, and they multiply greatly, and their livestock he does not let decrease.

• Psalms 107:39

  And they decrease and are bowed down by oppression, evil, and sorrow.

• Proverbs 13:11

  Wealth gained by vapor dwindles, but whoever gathers by hand increases it.

• Ecclesiastes 12:3

  on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

• Isaiah 21:17

  and the remnant of the number of bows, of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for YHWH, Elohim of Israel, has spoken.”

• Jeremiah 10:24

  Correct me, YHWH, but with justice, not in your anger, lest you reduce me.

• Jeremiah 29:6

  Take wives and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and do not decrease.

• Jeremiah 30:19

  And out of them will go thanksgiving and the sound of those who make merry; and I will multiply them, and they will not decrease; and I will honor them, and they will not be made small.

• Ezekiel 29:15

  Lowlier than the kingdoms it will be, and it will not exalt itself any more above the nations; and I will make them few so that they will not rule over the nations.

And 1 more times.