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small

Meaning of “small”

1. Little or limited in size, amount, number, extent, strength, power, rank, or importance. 2. Fine or minute; broken or ground into small particles. 3. In “no small,” considerable or great. 4. In “small cattle,” sheep and goats, as distinguished from oxen or larger cattle.

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97 occurrences95 verses29 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 19:11

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Isaiah 37:27
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 corn blasted before it be grown up.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 37:27 · retained source text

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.

1611 marginal noteHeb. short of hand.

Isaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 40:15 · retained source text

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, hee taketh vp the yles as a very litle thing.

Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 41:15 · retained source text

Behold, I will make thee a new sharpe threshing instrument hauing teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountaines, and beate them small, and shalt make the hilles as chaffe.

1611 marginal noteHebr. mouthes.

Isaiah 43:23
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 43:23 · retained source text

Thou hast not brought mee the small cattell of thy burnt offrings, neither hast thou honoured mee with thy sacrifices. I haue not caused thee to serue with an offring, nor wearied thee with incense.

1611 marginal noteHeb. lambs or kids.

Isaiah 54:7
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 54:7 · retained source text

For a small moment haue I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.

Isaiah 60:22
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 60:22 · retained source text

A litle one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Jeremiah 16:6
Both the great and the 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:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 16:6 · retained source text

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselues, nor make themselues balde for them.

Jeremiah 30:19
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 30:19 · retained source text

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

Jeremiah 44:28
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 44:28 · retained source text

Yet a small number that escape the sword, shall returne out of the land of Egypt into the land of Iudah: and all the remnant of Iudah that are gone into the land of Egypt to soiourne there, shall know whose wordes shall stand, mine or theirs.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from me or from them.

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