זְעֵיר
small
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2192 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
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.
“small” is the headline sense of the Hebrew adjective זעיר (zᵉʻêyr). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Daniel, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its lone occurrence is Daniel 7:8. It clusters with זעיר and מזער under a shared root. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2192 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Little 1×
- American Standard Version: Little 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Little one 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Little one 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2192 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2192 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2192 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2192 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- 1. of quantity, amount (of instruction) ז׳ שָׁם ז׳ שָׁם Is 28:10, 13 (in both ‖ צַו, קַו). e.g. Isaiah 28:10
- 2. of time, כַּתַּר־לִי ז׳ וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ Jb 36:2. e.g. Job 36:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.[m.] a little (diminutive form Ol§ 180 LagBN 85)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זעיר (zᵉʻêyr) (H2191) — a little.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זְעֵיר I
- , fut. יִזְעַר, נִזְעַר (cmp. זוּעַ; b. h. זְעֵיר)
- 1. to be slender, small; to be reduced, diminished. Targ. Prov. X, 27, v. זְעִי. Targ. Jer. XXIX, 6; a. fr.—Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵃ bot. זַעֲרַת ולא ז׳ וכ׳ it (the measure) was reduced, but was not made as small as it had been before; v. Ithpe.
- 2. (cmp. צער) to get sick. Gen. R. s. 33 ותִזְעַר נפשיה and he may get sick.
- 3. to restrain. Targ. II Sam. XVIII, 16 ed. Lag. a. Ar. (ed. מנע; h. text חשך).
- , אַזְעַר
- 1. to reduce, do little. Targ. Ex. XVI, 17; 18 (h. text הִמְעִיט). Targ. Lev. XXV, 16; a. fr.—Targ. Y. Num. XXII, 6 לאַזְעוֹרֵיה to reduce (defeat) him (h. text נכה).
- 2. to be small. Targ. O. Ex. XII, 4; a. e.
- to be made smaller. Targ. Y. Gen. I, 16.—Y. Shek. III, 47ᶜ top [read:] אִזְּעִירָא ולא אִזְּעָרַת וכ׳ it was reduced, but not made as small &c., v. supra.
זְעֵיר II
- (preced.) small, young, tender; lesser; a little. Targ. Gen. I, 16. Targ. O. ib. XLIV, 25.—Targ. Gen. XIX, 31; a. fr.—Y. Ber. II, 4ᵇ ז׳ לא … דרבה the inferior does not greet the superior; Y. Shek. II, 47ᵃ top דז׳ (not ר׳ ז׳).—Y. Snh. III, 21ᵃ bot. משום דזעיר מיניה in behalf of one his junior. Y. Keth. V, beg. 29ᶜ ומר ז׳ and said something small (insignificant). Ib. והדא היא ז׳ is this something small?; a. fr.—זְעִירִין, זְעֵירַיָּא. Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 4. Targ. Ps. CXV, 13; a. fr.—Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᵈ top והוא שאיל לז׳ and he asked the inferior (scholars)?—Fem. זְעֵירָן, זְעֵירָתָא. Targ. O. Gen. XXXII, 10.—Targ. Ps. CIV, 25 (Ms. זוטרתא).
זְעֵיר III
- Z’er (Little), an Amora. Y. Ter. VIII, 46ᵇ bot. ז׳ בר חיננא. Y. Ber. V, end, 8ᵈ ר׳ ז׳; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2192, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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