Midvash

זְעֵירzᵉʻêyr

זְעֵיר: a little

Pronunciation: zeh-ayr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2191

Meanings

1. of quantity, amount (Isaiah 28:10; Isaiah 28:13)

2. of time (Job 36:2)

ᵑ7: be small

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Job 36:2 “Let me go on, and I will show you the truth. For I have not finished defending God!
  • Isaiah 28:10 He tells us everything over and over— one line at a time, one line at a time, a little here, and a little there!”
  • Isaiah 28:13 So the Lord will spell out his message for them again, one line at a time, one line at a time, a little here, and a little there, so that they will stumble and fall. They will be injured, trapped, and captured.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).