TBESH · H6996A
קָטָן · qa.tan · small
young, small, unimportant Another spelling of qa.ton (קָטֹן ": small" H6996B)
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qa.tan H6996
קָטָן (qa.tan) means “small” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
קָטָן Hebrew · H6996 101 tagged occurrences in 100 verses
Pronunciation guide: kaw-tawn' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H6996B
קָטֹן · qa.ton · small
: small small, insignificant
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TBESH · H6996H
קָטֹן · qa.ton · small: young
: young small, insignificant A sub-meaning of qa.ton (קָטֹן ": small" H6996B)
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or קָטֹן; from H6962 (קוּט); abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
KJV glosses: least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
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How translators render H6996
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| small | 13 |
| from the least | 5 |
| young | 5 |
| the youngest | 4 |
| your youngest | 4 |
| from the least of them | 3 |
| her younger | 3 |
| younger | 3 |
| a small | 2 |
| a young | 2 |
| among the least | 2 |
| and small | 2 |
| both small | 2 |
| both young | 2 |
| his youngest | 2 |
| is so small | 2 |
| minor | 2 |
| the lesser | 2 |
| a little | 1 |
| and a small | 1 |
| and a younger brother | 1 |
| and one light | 1 |
| and one small | 1 |
| and the small | 1 |
| and the younger | 1 |
| and the youngest | 1 |
| and their younger | 1 |
| and young alike | 1 |
| and your younger | 1 |
| anything small | 1 |
| are small | 1 |
| as small | 1 |
| for a brief | 1 |
| for your younger | 1 |
| from the smallest | 1 |
| had a young | 1 |
| his younger | 1 |
| his younger daughter | 1 |
| not in part | 1 |
| nothing | 1 |
| of a little | 1 |
| of small things | 1 |
| of the youngest ones | 1 |
| only a little | 1 |
| our younger | 1 |
| so if our younger | 1 |
| the least | 1 |
| the least of whom | 1 |
| the least of you | 1 |
| the little | 1 |
| the space from the smaller | 1 |
| there was a small | 1 |
| was the youngest | 1 |
| was too small | 1 |
| we have a little | 1 |
| with the youngest | 1 |
| your younger | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a little | 6 |
| small | 6 |
| both small | 5 |
| and small | 4 |
| little | 4 |
| from the least | 3 |
| of the least | 3 |
| the youngest | 3 |
| your youngest | 3 |
| a little one | 2 |
| and a little | 2 |
| and a small | 2 |
| and thy younger | 2 |
| as well the small | 2 |
| her younger | 2 |
| less | 2 |
| of the younger | 2 |
| or small | 2 |
| the small | 2 |
| thee small | 2 |
| younger | 2 |
| and behold the youngest | 1 |
| and from the lesser | 1 |
| and the lesser | 1 |
| and the little | 1 |
| and the small | 1 |
| as to the small | 1 |
| at the youngest | 1 |
| but every small | 1 |
| for a small | 1 |
| for every one from the least | 1 |
| for from the least | 1 |
| had a young | 1 |
| hence except your youngest | 1 |
| him a little | 1 |
| his younger | 1 |
| his youngest | 1 |
| if our youngest | 1 |
| me from the least | 1 |
| neither with small | 1 |
| not and the youngest | 1 |
| not her younger | 1 |
| of a little | 1 |
| of all this less | 1 |
| of small | 1 |
| of small things | 1 |
| of the smallest | 1 |
| of the youngest | 1 |
| of them even to the least | 1 |
| our youngest | 1 |
| the little | 1 |
| their younger | 1 |
| this your younger | 1 |
| thy younger | 1 |
| too little | 1 |
| unto thee but every small | 1 |
| we have a little | 1 |
| what his younger | 1 |
| ye not with small | 1 |
| yet a little | 1 |
| yet the youngest | 1 |
Verses containing H6996
Page 1 of 2. 100 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
Read word by word - Genesis 9:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
Read word by word - Genesis 19:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
Read word by word - Genesis 27:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
Read word by word - Genesis 27:42
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
Read word by word - Genesis 29:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
Read word by word - Genesis 29:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Read word by word - Genesis 42:13
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But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Read word by word - Genesis 42:15
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And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Read word by word - Genesis 42:20
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Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
Read word by word - Genesis 42:32
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We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Read word by word - Genesis 42:34
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But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.’”
Read word by word - Genesis 43:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
Read word by word - Genesis 44:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
Read word by word - Genesis 44:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Read word by word - Genesis 44:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
Read word by word - Genesis 44:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
Read word by word - Genesis 44:26
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Read word by word - Genesis 48:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
Read word by word - Exodus 18:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.
Read word by word - Exodus 18:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
Read word by word - Numbers 22:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 1:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 25:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 25:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
Read word by word - Judges 1:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.
Read word by word - Judges 3:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.
Read word by word - Judges 9:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
Read word by word - Judges 15:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 2:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 5:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 9:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 14:49
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:11
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And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 22:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 30:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 30:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 9:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica, and all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 12:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:64
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 17:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
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