μικρος
small
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Degree
- Comparative
- Expresses a greater degree (“greater,” “more”).
Grammatical forms 15 distinct
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 14 times (33%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 5 times (12%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 3 times (7%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Comparative 3 times (7%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (5%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (5%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 2 times (5%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (5%)
+7 more forms (9 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 42 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3398 appears — 39 distinct verses across 11 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 8 verses
- Matthew 10:42 μικρῶν adj gen pl masc Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
- Matthew 11:11 μικρότερος adj nom sg masc comp Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
- Matthew 13:32 μικρότερον adj nom sg neut comp which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."
- Matthew 18:6 μικρῶν adj gen pl masc but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
- Matthew 18:10 μικρῶν adj gen pl neut See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 18:14 μικρῶν adj gen pl neut Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
- Matthew 26:39 μικρὸν adj acc sg masc He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
- Matthew 26:73 μικρὸν adj acc sg neut After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."
Mark 5 verses
- Mark 4:31 μικρότερον adj nom sg neut comp It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
- Mark 9:42 μικρῶν adj gen pl masc Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
- Mark 14:35 μικρὸν adj acc sg neut He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
- Mark 14:70 μικρὸν adj acc sg masc But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
- Mark 15:40 μικροῦ adj gen sg masc There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 7:28 μικρότερος adj nom sg masc comp "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."
- Luke 9:48 μικρότερος adj nom sg masc comp and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."
- Luke 12:32 μικρὸν adj nom sg neut Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
- Luke 17:2 μικρῶν adj gen pl masc It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
- Luke 19:3 μικρὸς adj nom sg masc He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
John 6 verses
- John 13:33 μικρὸν adj acc sg neut Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
- John 14:19 μικρὸν adj acc sg neut Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
- John 16:16 μικρὸν μικρὸν adj acc sg neut adj acc sg neut A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."
- John 16:17 μικρὸν μικρὸν adj acc sg neut adj acc sg neut Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
- John 16:18 μικρόν adj acc sg neut They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."
- John 16:19 μικρὸν μικρὸν adj acc sg neut adj acc sg neut Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 8:10 μικροῦ adj gen sg masc to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God."
- Acts 26:22 μικρῷ adj dat sg masc Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 2 verses
Galatians 1 verse
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 8:11 μικροῦ adj gen sg masc They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, Every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all will know me, From the least of them to the greatest of them.
- Hebrews 10:37 μικρὸν adj acc sg neut "In a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not wait.
James 1 verse
Revelation 6 verses
- Revelation 3:8 μικρὰν adj acc sg fem "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.
- Revelation 11:18 μικροῖς adj dat pl masc The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
- Revelation 13:16 μικροὺς adj acc pl masc He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
- Revelation 19:5 μικροὶ adj nom pl masc A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!"
- Revelation 19:18 μικρῶν adj gen pl masc that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."
- Revelation 20:12 μικρούς adj acc pl masc I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, μικρος (mikrós) means “small.” It first appears in Matthew 10:42. Spanning 39 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ελαχιστος and μικρον. Dig into 39-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3398 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 39
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 39 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #356
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 356 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 39 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 8 verses 21%
- John 6 verses 15%
- Revelation 6 verses 15%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 39 distinct verses.
- Gospels 24 verses · 62%
- Johannine 12 verses · 31%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 18%
- Revelation 6 verses · 15%
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 5%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Little 10×, Little ones 6×, Small 5×
- American Standard Version: Little 11×, Small 6×, Least 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Little 13×, Small 8×, Least 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Little 21×, While 10×, Small 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3398 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3398 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3398 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3398 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- small, little
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
Apparently a primary word including the comparative (second form); small (in size quantity number or (figuratively) dignity): - least less little small.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms G3398 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3398, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μικρος appears 129 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 124 verses in 28 books.
- 129
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 124
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:11 μικρός
- Exodus 17:4 μικρός
- Numbers 16:9 μικρός
- Deuteronomy 1:17 μικρός
- Joshua 22:17 μικρός
- Judges 4:19 μικρός
- Ruth 2:7 μικρός
- 1 Samuel 2:19 μικρός
- 2 Samuel 7:19 μικρός
- 1 Kings 2:20 μικρός
- 2 Kings 2:23 μικρός
- 1 Chronicles 12:15 μικρός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3398) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 124. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:11 μικρός They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
- Genesis 19:20 μικρός See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
- Genesis 24:17 μικρός The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
- Genesis 24:43 μικρός Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.
- Genesis 26:10 μικρός Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
- Genesis 30:30 μικρός For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
- Genesis 42:2 μικρός He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
- Genesis 42:32 μικρός We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
- Genesis 43:2 μικρός It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
- Genesis 44:25 μικρός Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
- Genesis 47:9 μικρός Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
- Exodus 17:4 μικρός Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
- Exodus 23:30 μικρός Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
- Numbers 16:9 μικρός [seems it but] a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
- Numbers 16:13 μικρός is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us?
- Numbers 22:18 μικρός Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
- Deuteronomy 1:17 μικρός You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
- Deuteronomy 7:22 μικρός Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Deuteronomy 25:13 μικρός You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:14 μικρός You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
- Joshua 22:17 μικρός Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
- Joshua 22:19 μικρός However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.
- Judges 4:19 μικρός He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
- Judges 6:15 μικρός He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
- Ruth 2:7 μικρός She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.
- 1 Samuel 2:19 μικρός Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
- 1 Samuel 5:9 μικρός It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke out on them.
- 1 Samuel 9:21 μικρός Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
- 1 Samuel 15:17 μικρός Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
- 1 Samuel 16:11 μικρός Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
- 1 Samuel 20:2 μικρός He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."
- 1 Samuel 20:35 μικρός It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
- 1 Samuel 22:15 μικρός Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.
- 1 Samuel 25:36 μικρός Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
- 1 Samuel 30:2 μικρός and had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, both small and great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
- 1 Samuel 30:19 μικρός 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.
- 2 Samuel 7:19 μικρός This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh!
- 2 Samuel 9:12 μικρός Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.
- 2 Samuel 12:3 μικρός but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
- 2 Samuel 12:8 μικρός I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
- 2 Samuel 17:20 μικρός Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 24:25 μικρός David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
- 1 Kings 2:20 μικρός Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me. The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.
- 1 Kings 3:7 μικρός Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't know how to go out or come in.
- 1 Kings 8:64 μικρός The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.
- 1 Kings 11:17 μικρός that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
- 1 Kings 17:13 μικρός Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- 1 Kings 18:44 μικρός It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
- 1 Kings 22:31 μικρός Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 2:23 μικρός He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3398) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
