μικρός
mikros
“small”
Definition
small (in size, quantity, number or (figuratively) dignity)
apparently a primary word;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
G:A
Greek Adjective
Occurrences
μικρός appears 43 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
And there were also women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.