Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
KJV Usage: suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, X borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, (X give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָעַט (ma.at) — to diminish. 1) to be or become small, be few, be diminished 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to diminish 1a2) to be too small 1b) (Piel) to become few 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make small, make few, diminish 1c2) to give less
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מְעַט
Quantity | verb qal
to become few, to decrease = state in which humans or objects are relatively few in number
EXO 12:4 · PSA 107:39 · PRO 13:11 · ECC 12:3 · ISA 21:17 · JER 29:6 · JER 30:19
Quantity | verb hif
to make few = causative action by which deities cause humans or objects to be relatively few in number
Lax | verb hif
to do little = action by which humans perform an event with little intensity
EXO 16:17 · EXO 16:18 · EXO 30:15 · NUM 11:32 · NUM 26:54 · NUM 33:54 · NUM 35:8 · 2KI 4:3
Lax | verb hif
to reduce, to lower = causative action by which humans cause events to have little intensity
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָעַט] vb. be or become small, diminished, few Qal be too small for a lamb
Pi. become few
Hiph. make small or few, diminish
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