7 occurrences

'Small' in the Bible

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.

Verse ConceptsGleaningGrapesRemnantVinesMetaphorical VineyardsSurvivors DestroyedDoing Repeatedly

O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

Verse ConceptsCorrectionChastisementNothingLet Not God Be AngryGod Requite Them!Judgementwrath

Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBaldnessHairsKnivesUnburied BodiesNo BurialsGreat And SmallGashing BodiesNot Mourning

And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingThanksgivingRestored JoyGod Multipling PeopleSource Of HonourBeing Thankful For BlessingsCelebrationThankscelebrating

And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

Verse ConceptsRemnantFew PeoplePray For Ussupplicationpetition

And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number; and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.

Verse ConceptsKnowingFew People

For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

Verse ConceptsInferioritySmallnessSmall Things

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)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain