tsair · younger, small

What it means

tsair (צָעִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “younger, small”.

The younger; small, young; few.

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. The youngest.
2. Of little importance.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• younger ×8
• little ones ×4
• youngest ×4
• Small ×2
• least ×2
• I am young ×1
• smallest ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Micah×1

• Genesis 19:31

  The older said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

• Genesis 19:34

  The next day the older said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

• Genesis 19:35

  So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger got up and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

• Genesis 19:38

  The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

• Genesis 25:23

  YHWH said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your inner parts will be divided; one people will be stronger than the other people, and the older will serve the younger.”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 43:33

  They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked in amazement at one another.

• Genesis 48:14

  But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Joshua 6:26

  Joshua made them swear at that time, saying, “Cursed before YHWH be the man who rises up and builds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

• Judges 6:15

  He said to him, “Pardon, Adonai, with what shall I save Israel? Look, my thousand is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in the house of my father.”

• 1 Samuel 9:21

  And Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my clan is the least of all the clans of the tribes of Benjamin. Why then have you spoken to me a word like this?”

• 1 Kings 16:34

  In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Joshua son of Nun.

• Job 30:1

  But now they laugh at me, those younger than I in days, whose fathers I despised to put with the dogs of my flock.

• Job 32:6

  And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in days, and you are very old; therefore I held back and was afraid to declare my knowledge to you.

• Psalms 68:27

  There is Benjamin, the youngest, who rules them; the officials of Judah, their throng; the officials of Zebulun, the officials of Naphtali.

• Psalms 119:141

  Small I am and despised; your precepts I have not forgotten.

• Isaiah 60:22

  The least will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation; I, YHWH, will hasten it in its time.

• Jeremiah 14:3

  And their nobles send their little ones for water; they come to the pools, they do not find water; they return, their vessels empty; they are ashamed and humiliated, and they cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 48:4

  Moab is broken; her little ones have raised a cry.

• Jeremiah 49:20

  Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH which he has counseled against Edom, and his plans which he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he will make desolate their fold because of them.

• Jeremiah 50:45

  Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH which he has counseled against Babylon, and his plans which he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he will make desolate their fold because of them.

• Micah 5:2

  But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, small to be among the thousands of Judah, from you one will come out for me to be ruler in Israel, and his goings out are from of old, from the days of long ago.