צָעִירtsâʻîyr
little, insignificant, young
Pronunciation: tsaw-eer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6810
Meanings
1.
a. little, with idea of insignificance (Judges 6:15; 1 Samuel 9:21; Micah 5:1)
b. insignificant, mean (Psalms 119:141; Jeremiah 14:3; Jeremiah 48:4)
2. more often of age, young (usually with article the younger, youngest, as substantive) (Genesis 43:33; Genesis 48:14; Joshua 6:26)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 23 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to her sister, “There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can’t get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.
- Genesis 19:34 The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
- Genesis 19:35 So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger daughter went in and had intercourse with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
- Genesis 19:38 When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.
- Genesis 25:23 And the Lord told her, “The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals. One nation will be stronger than the other; and your older son will serve your younger son.”
- Genesis 29:26 “It’s not our custom here to marry off a younger daughter ahead of the firstborn,” Laban replied.
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).