Strong's Definition
or miat {meh-awt'}; from 4591; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
KJV Usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, X very
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מְעַט (me.at) — little. 1) littleness, few, a little, fewness 1a) little, small, littleness, fewness, too little, yet a little 1b) like a little, within a little, almost, just, hardly, shortly, little worth
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · מעט
Quantity
Collocation: מְעַט · כִּמְעַט
few, little, small = small quantity of objects or substance
GEN 18:4 · GEN 24:17 · GEN 24:43 · GEN 30:30 · GEN 43:2 · GEN 43:11 · GEN 43:11 · GEN 44:25 · NUM 13:18 · NUM 26:54 · NUM 26:56 · NUM 33:54 · NUM 35:8 · DEU 7:7 · DEU 26:5 · DEU 28:38 · DEU 28:62 · JOS 7:3 · JDG 4:19 · 1SA 14:6 · 1SA 14:29 · 1SA 14:43 · 1SA 17:28 · 2SA 12:8 · 1KI 17:10 · 1KI 17:12 · 1CH 16:19 · 2CH 29:34 · NEH 2:12 · NEH 7:4 · PSA 8:6 · PSA 37:16 · PSA 105:12 · PRO 15:16 · PRO 16:8 · ECC 5:11 · ECC 9:14 · ISA 10:7 · ISA 16:14 · JER 42:2 · EZK 5:3 · DAN 11:23 · HAG 1:6 · HAG 1:9
Frequency
Collocation: מְעַט · כִּמְעַט
few, little, short = relatively low frequency of events or short duration of an event
GEN 47:9 · EXO 17:4 · LEV 25:52 · RUT 2:7 · 2SA 16:1 · 2SA 19:37 · 2CH 12:7 · EZR 9:8 · JOB 10:20 · JOB 10:20 · JOB 24:24 · JOB 32:22 · PSA 37:10 · PSA 81:15 · PSA 94:17 · PSA 109:8 · PSA 119:87 · PRO 5:14 · PRO 6:10 · PRO 6:10 · PRO 6:10 · PRO 24:33 · PRO 24:33 · PRO 24:33 · ECC 5:1 · ECC 10:1 · SNG 3:4 · ISA 1:9 · ISA 10:25 · ISA 26:20 · ISA 29:17 · JER 51:33 · EZK 11:16 · EZK 16:47 · DAN 11:34 · HOS 1:4 · HOS 8:10 · HAG 2:6
Lax
a little, some, somewhat = pertaining to happening with a low intensity
EXO 23:30 · EXO 23:30 · DEU 7:22 · DEU 7:22 · 2KI 10:18 · EZR 9:8 · ZEC 1:15
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מְעַט 101 subst. a little, fewness, a few base