89 occurrences

'Small' in the Bible

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod BlindingNot Finding

And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesBoils Or UlcersSootBoth Men And Animals Affected

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.

Verse ConceptsFrostSmall ThingsCold Weather

and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

Verse ConceptsSharing BurdensGreat ThingsUnimportant Things

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementHard TasksUnimportant ThingsStrength In Hard Times

and thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.

Verse ConceptsGrinding

and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

Verse ConceptsGrindingIncenseCensersBurning Sacrifices

seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them;

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleUnimportant Things

is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPlenty In EgyptLording ItMilk And HoneyUnimportant Things

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.

Verse ConceptsLawsuitsSmallnessMagistratesFear Of ManPartialityGreat And SmallHard TasksDo Not Fear MenJudgingRespectMaking DecisionsDecision MakingConflictFamily ConflictRespecting AuthorityJudging Others Actionsdiscrimination

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous Things

Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.

Verse ConceptsdewGrassPlantsRainTendernessWeather, As God's JudgmentAbundance, MaterialShowersPeople TeachingHerbsdoctrine

And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors brake out upon them.

And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die: behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessFar Be It!Things RevealedThose Who Did Not Tell

and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.

And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.

Verse ConceptsLackNo LossMissing SomeoneBeing Lost

And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of men, O Lord Jehovah!

Verse ConceptsFutureRevelation Of The FutureMan's Relation To God

Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

Verse ConceptsRopesCities Under AttackPulling ThingsBuilding Stones Rejected

Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.

Verse ConceptsStreetsTrampling PeopleGrinding PeopleMarshesdustcrushes

Then she said, I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.

Verse ConceptsSmallness

And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Make ready thy chariot , and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSmallnessSmall Things God UsesSmall ThingsAvoid Being Hindered

and after the earthquake a fire; but Jehovah was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

Verse ConceptsGentlenessFireSpeech, DivineAdvice, Receiving God's AdviceStillnessGod Appearing In FireGod's VoiceHurricanes

Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty and two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

Verse ConceptsThirty SomeSmallnesssyria

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantReadingLiteracyReading The ScripturesGreat And Small

And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

Verse ConceptsTravelGreat And SmallFear Of Enemies

And this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; but thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Jehovah God.

Verse ConceptsFuture

And they cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallAssignment

And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to their fathers houses, for every gate.

and that whosoever would not seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

Verse ConceptsSeeking GodSmallnessDeath Penalty For Heresy

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSmallness

For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Jehovah delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.

Verse ConceptsLargenessLarge Armies

And under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsReading

And his princes gave for a freewill-offering unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred'small cattle , and three hundred oxen.

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandThree Hundred And Above

Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for the passover-offerings five thousand'small cattle , and five hundred oxen.

Verse ConceptsHeadsFour To Five HundredFive ThousandFour And Five Hundred

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsTributesHoly VesselsSacred Vessels

And when these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

Verse ConceptsDinnerSeven Days

And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

Verse ConceptsThe Honourable Will Be HonouredWives

The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallDeath Is UniversalPeople Freeing Slaves

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

Verse ConceptsGod Will Comfort

Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of The InnocentHumility, Examples OfCurbing SpeechI Am Unimportant

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Verse ConceptsGrinding PeopleMarshesdustcrushes

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberNatureSeaBroadnessMany CreaturesThe OceanThe Sea

I am small and despised; Yet do I not forget thy precepts.

Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Verse ConceptsRemnantMinoritiesSmall RemnantsSimilar Items

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod Growing Weary

But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.

Verse ConceptsInferiorityHirelingsPowerlessnessThree YearsSurvivors ThreatenedLosing Honour

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.

Verse ConceptsFathers Responsibilities

But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

Verse ConceptsChaffSuddenlyLight As ChaffCreatures Returning To DustProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacksdust

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.

Verse ConceptsGrassPlantsTendernessMan As GrassScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfBalances, Metaphorical UseBucketsA Little Bitbalancedust

Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Verse ConceptsTeethThreshingMountains Removed

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.

Verse ConceptsMinoritiesRight Time For GodOther Unimportant PeopleFamiliesGod's TimingGods TimingWaiting For God's Timinggroups

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingThanksgivingRestored JoyGod Multipling PeopleSource Of HonourBeing Thankful For BlessingsCelebrationThankscelebrating

For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

Verse ConceptsInferioritySmallnessSmall Things

Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

Verse ConceptsIdol WorshipUnimportant Things

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

Verse ConceptsSocial SelfishnessDrinking WaterResidue

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.

Verse ConceptsMen DeceivingFew People

And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Verse ConceptsSmall CreaturesAnimals EatingGod Forgive!

Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsCessationStopping EvilSmall CreaturesBelittling

saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersCheatingDishonesty, Kinds OfBuying and sellingMarketsMonthNew Moon FestivalSabbath, In OtBalances, For BusinessStealingWeighingBig ThingsSmall ThingsBeginning Of PeriodsSabbath ViolatedThose Who Deceivedbalancemarketing

Behold, I have made thee small among the nations: thou art greatly despised.

Verse ConceptsOther Unimportant People

For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfContemptGod, Present EverywherePlumb LineVisionSmall Things God UsesSeven Body PartsSmall ThingsPatrollingGod Seeing All The Earth

And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

Verse ConceptsSevenSeven ThingsSmall CreaturesFew ThingsFish

And they had a few small fishes: and having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them.

Verse ConceptsSmall CreaturesFew ThingsThanking God For FoodFish

Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

Verse ConceptsMorningGroups Trembling

And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, the brethren appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Verse Conceptselders, in the churchBelieversVisitingDissensionDisputesMan AppointingThe Apostles In ActionResolving Conflict

And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat:

Verse ConceptsSmallnessBoats

And when neither sun nor stars shone upon us for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismDark DaysWithout HopeNavigationNatural DisastersFeeling Lost

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

Verse ConceptsNot JudgingUnimportant ThingsJudgmentsJudgingSelf WorthSelf EsteemBeing YourselfJudgementJudging Others Actionsmyself

Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.

Verse ConceptsFutureLast JudgmentMinistry, Nature OfReverence, And God's NatureSmallnessFear Of God, Results OfEcologyEternal JudgmentThe Day Of JudgementDestruction Of Satan's WorksThe DestroyerThe Final JudgementGreat And SmallGod Angry With The NationsSlaves Of GodAmericaAngry With GodThe Environment

And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;

Verse ConceptsForeheadsSmallnessDisfigurement Of SinGreat And SmallEvil For The Right HandPoor Or RichSlave Or FreeMark Of The Beastbranding

And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great.

Verse ConceptsBabylonPraise, Reasons ForSmallnessReverence To GodGod's VoiceGreat And SmallPraise The Lord!Slaves Of GodGay Marriage

that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallSlave Or Freerevelation

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGuilt, Human Aspects OfDestinySmallnessStandingJudgmentWhat Heaven Will Be LikeThe Judgement InvolvesThe Act Of OpeningOpening DocumentsThe Final JudgementGreat And SmallRepaid For DeedsJudgment According To WorksAccountabilityJudgement DayJudging Others Actionsdeeds

Bible Theasaurus

Belittled (2 instances)
Diminished (15 instances)
Faint (84 instances)
Halfway (6 instances)
Meager (3 instances)
Minor (10 instances)
Minute (21 instances)
Moderate (1 instance)
Modest (8 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּקק 
Daqaq 
Usage: 13

מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

צעור צעירo 
Tsa`iyr 
Usage: 22

קטן 
Qaton 
was a small thing , make small , am not worthy
Usage: 4

קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

גּרע 
Gara` 
Usage: 22

דּק 
Daq 
Usage: 14

מטר 
Matar 
Usage: 38

מצער 
Mits`ar 
Usage: 5

מת 
Math 
men , few , few , friends , number , persons , small , with
Usage: 21

צער 
Tsa`ar 
Usage: 3

קצר 
Qatser 
Usage: 5

שׁחק 
Shachaq 
Usage: 21

שׂעיר 
Sa`iyr 
Usage: 1

ἐλάχιστος 
Elachistos 
Usage: 5

ἰχθύδιον 
Ichthudion 
Usage: 2

μικρός μικρότερος 
Mikros 
Usage: 15

ὀλίγος 
Oligos 
Usage: 28

ὀψάριον 
Opsarion 
Usage: 4

πλοιάριον 
Ploiarion 
Usage: 6

σχοινίον 
Schoinion 
Usage: 2

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