ὀλιγοστός
few, least
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀλιγοστός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 16 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 34:30 ὀλιγοστός And Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, You⌃ have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.
- Exodus 12:4 ὀλιγοστός And if they be few in a household, so that there are not enough for the lamb, he shall take with himself his neighbor that lives near to him, —as to the number of souls, every one according to that which suffices him shall make a reckoning for the lamb.
- Leviticus 26:22 ὀλιγοστός And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.
- Deuteronomy 7:7 ὀλιγοστός It was not because you⌃ are more numerous than all other nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for you⌃ are fewer in number than all other nations.
- 2 Kings 14:26 ὀλιγοστός For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in lack, and destitute, and Israel had no helper.
- 1 Chronicles 16:19 ὀλιγοστός when they were few in number, when they were but little, and lived as strangers in it;
- Psalms 104:12 ὀλιγοστός when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.
- Isaiah 16:14 ὀλιγοστός And now I say, in three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonored with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honored.
- Isaiah 41:14 ὀλιγοστός Fear not, Jacob, and you Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, he that redeems you, O Israel.
- Isaiah 60:22 ὀλιγοστός The little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them in due time.
- Ezekiel 29:15 ὀλιγοστός and it shall be a base kingdom beyond all other kingdoms; it shall not any more be exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be great among the nations.
- Daniel 11:23 ὀλιγοστός And because of the leagues made with him he shall work deceit: and he shall come up, and overpower them with a small nation.
- Amos 7:2 ὀλιγοστός And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.
- Amos 7:5 ὀλιγοστός Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray you: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. Repent, O Lord, for this.
- Obadiah 1:2 ὀλιγοστός Arise you⌃, and let us rise up against her to war.
- Micah 5:1 ὀλιγοστός Now shall the daughter of Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall strike the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
About this word
About this word
ὀλιγοστός (oligostós), “few, least,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 16 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →