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Lesser [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Less; smaller. Authors always write the lesser Asia.

2. By the same reason, may a man in a state of nature, punish the lesser breaches of that law.

3. God made the lesser light to rule the night. Genesis 1:16 .

Lesser [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Less; smaller; inferior.

Lesser [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Less.

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3 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “lesser”

Genesis 1:16

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

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.

Leviticus 25:16

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

Isaiah 7:25

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

Isaiah 22:24

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

Ezekiel 43:14

And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

Hebrews 7:7

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.