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Ecclesiastes 12:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3117 In the day ביום

H2111 שׁיזעו

H8104 when the keepers שׁמרי

H1004 of the house הבית

H5791 shall bow themselves והתעותו

H376 men אנשׁי

H2428 and the strong החיל

H988 cease ובטלו

H2912 and the grinders הטחנות

H3588 because כי

H4592 מעטו

H2821 be darkened וחשׁכו

H7200 and those that look הראות

H699 out of the windows בארבות׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

the

H3117 day

when

the

H8104 keepers

the

H1004 house

shall

H7945 tremble

and

the

H2428 strong

H376 men

shall

bow

H5791 themselves

and

the

H2912 grinders

H988 cease

H3588 because

they

are

H4591 few

and

those

that

H7200 look

out

the

H699 windows

H2821 darkened

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