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Proverbs 13:11

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Masoretic Text 1524

H1952 Wealth הון

H1892 מהבל

H4591 shall be diminished ימעט

H6908 but he that gathereth וקבץ

H5921 gotten by על

H3027 labour יד

H7235 shall increase ירבה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H1952 Wealth

gotten

H5921 by

H4480 vanity

shall

H4591 diminished

but

that

H6908 gathereth

H5921 by

H3027 labour

shall

H7235 increase

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H4591

Hebrew: מָעַט

Transliteration: mâʻaṭ

Pronunciation: maw-at'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: suffer to {decrease} {diminish} ({be} X-(idiom) borrow {a} {give} make) few (in {number} {-ness}) gather least ({little}) be (seem) {little} (X give the) {less} be {minished} bring to nothing.

Definition:

properly to pare {off} that {is} lessen; intransitively to be (or causatively to make) small or few (or figuratively ineffective)

1. to be or become small, be few, be diminished

a. (Qal)

1. to diminish

2. to be too small

b. (Piel) to become few

c. (Hiphil)

1. to make small, make few, diminish

2. to give less

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906