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Hebrew wordlink #363644

OSHB Hos 1:4 מְעַט (məˊaţ) Strongs=4592 Lemma=‘מְעַט’
contextual word gloss=‘a_little’ word gloss=‘a_little_while’
Morphology=Aamsa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute
Year=-785 TimeSeries=Prophecies_of_Hosea

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Only use of identical word form ‘מְעַט’ (Morphology=Aamsa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מְעַט’ (Morphology=Aamsa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=singular State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘a_little’.

HOS 1:4 contextual word gloss=‘a_little’ word gloss=‘a_little_while’ OSHB HOS 1:4 word 9

OET-LV: 4 And_ YHWH _he/it _said to_him/it call his/its_name Yizrəˊ^ʼēl/(Jezreel) if/because yet a _little and_I _will _visit DOM the _blood(s)_of Yizrəˊ^ʼēl/(Jezreel) on the _house _of Yēhūʼ/(Jehu) and_I _will _put _an _end _to the _kingdom _of the _house _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel). (HOS_1:4)

OET-RV: 4 Then Yahweh told him, “Name him Yizre’el, because in a little while I’ll avenge the blood shed in the Yizre’el valley on Yehu’s family, and I’ll put an end to the kingdom of Yisrael. (HOS 1:4)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מְעַט’’ have 10 different glosses: ‘[are]_few’, ‘[is]_a_little’, ‘[the]_little’, ‘[were]_few’, ‘a_few’, ‘a_little’, ‘a_little_of’, ‘few’, ‘little’, ‘the_fewness_of’.