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H2191

זעיר

זעיר
zaiyar

Masculine noun · From an unused root [akin (by permutation) to צער (H6819)], meaning to dwindle

From an unused root (akin (by permutation) to H6819), meaning to dwindle; small:—little.

Outline

  1. a little
    1. of quantity
    2. of time

Usages

Job 36:2

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.

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Isaiah 28:10

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

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Isaiah 28:13

But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Breakdown

...might go, and fall backward... The Bible was written precept upon precept so that not everyone can get it (Isaiah 6:9-11, Romans 11:9-10, Ecclesiasticus 39:24).

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