Strong's G3641 ὀλίγος (oligos)

On that very day entered Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.

And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they were before him as a few days, by reason of his loving her.

And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp.

and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many.

Thou shalt divide their inheritance by lot between the many and the few.

And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and take the city by siege: carry not up thither the whole people, for the enemy are few.

And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, let us go over to Messab of these uncircumcised, if peradventure the Lord may do something for us; for the Lord is not straitened to save by many or by few.

And he arose and went to Zarephath, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow woman was there gathering sticks; and Elijah cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

And the woman said, As the Lord thy God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die.

And Jehu gathered all the people, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu shall serve him much.

And Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, it is not impossible with thee to save by many or by few: strengthen us, O Lord our God; for we trust in thee, and in thy name have we come against this great multitude. O Lord our God, let not man prevail against thee.

For the army of Syria came with few men, yet God gave into their hands a very large army, because they had forsaken the God of their fathers; and he brought judgments on Joash.

But the priests were few, and could not flay the whole burnt offering, so their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished, and until the priests had purified themselves: for the Levites more zealously purified themselves than the priests.

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.

Though then thy beginning should be small, Yet thy end should be unspeakably great.

Is not the time of my life short? Suffer me to rest a little,

And though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; And if they be few, he is not aware.

Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: Thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly.

because of the enemies of thy hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; Scatter them in their life, Though their belly has been filled with thy hidden treasures: They have been satisfied with uncleanness, And have left the remnant of their possessions to their babes.

And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, And thou shalt seek for his place, and shalt not find it.

A little is better to the righteous Than abundant wealth of sinners.

But my feet were almost overthrown; My goings very nearly slipped.

Let his days be few: And let another take his office of overseer.

I was almost in all evil In the midst of the congregation and assembly.

time, And thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.

The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, And for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.

Be not hasty with thy mouth, And let not thy heart be swift To utter anything before God; For God is in heaven above, and thou upon earth: Therefore let thy words be few.

The sleep of a servant is sweet, Whether he eat little or much: But to one who is satiated with wealth, There is none that suffers him to sleep.

Suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; And there should come against it a great king, and surround it, And build great mounds against it;

Pestilent flies will corrupt a preparation of sweet ointment: And a little wisdom is more precious than great glory of folly.

But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

to Jeremiah the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before thy face, and pray thou to the Lord thy God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as thine eyes see.

And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Judah few in number, and the remnant of Judah, who have continued in the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.

And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.

And because of the leagues made with him he shall work deceit: and he shall come up, and overpower them with a small nation.

Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.

Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run every one into his own house;

And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack her: forasmuch as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack her for evil.

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;

And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

And there they abode long time with the disciples.

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

and tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and anon after she went forth, and gave Holofernes his head to her maid;

Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company;

Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of old time;

there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.

Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:

In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.

Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.

Thus the land of Judah was in rest a little while.

But they dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us now rather save our lives, and hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.

Therefore send them now home again, and choose a few men to wait on thee, and come thou with me to Ptolemais, for I will give it thee, and the rest of the strongholds and forces, and all that have any charge: as for me, I will return and depart: for this is the cause of my coming.

In the hundred threescore and fourteenth year went Antiochus into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came together unto him, so that few were left with Trypho.

Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:

and the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honor for Judaism: so that, being but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous multitudes,

But let this that we have spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.

Therefore he came at unawares, and burned up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.

Now Timothy, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of arms.

Not long after this, Lysias the king’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done.

And it happened that in their fighting together a few of the Jews were slain.

Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that such sour behavior came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.

have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.

It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,

did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.

For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, And in the death of a man there is no remedy: Neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.

And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: For God proved them, And found them worthy for himself.

He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time:

Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, Because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, And silver shall be counted as clay before her.

Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, And warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, That leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.

But yet for this they are the less to be blamed: For they peradventure err, Seeking God, and desirous to find him.

And so the multitude, allured by the grace of the work, Took him now for a god, which a little before was but honored as a man.

And employing his labors lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, Even he which a little before was made of earth himself, And within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was taken, When his life which was lent him shall be demanded.

To the end that they, desiring food, Might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them Loath even that, which they must needs desire; But these, suffering penury for a short space, Might be made partakers of a strange taste.

But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be admonished, Having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.

Come unto her as one that ploweth and soweth, And wait for her good fruits: For thou shalt not toil much in laboring about her, But thou shalt eat of her fruits right soon.