Few
Few
used of number quantity, and size, denotes “few, little, small, slight,” e.g., Mat 7:14; Mat 9:37; Mat 15:34; Mat 20:16; neuter plural, “a few things,” Mat 25:21, Mat 25:23; Rev 2:14 (20 in some mss.); in Eph 3:3, the phrase en oligo, in brief, is translated “in a few words.”
denotes (a) “short,” in regard to time, e.g., Heb 2:7; or distance, Act 27:28; (b) “few,” in regard to quantity, Heb 13:22, in the phrase dia bracheon, lit., “by means of few,” i.e., “in few words.” See LITTLE.
Note: In Luk 10:42, in the Lord’s words to Martha, many ancient authorities provide the rendering, “but there is need of few things (neuter plural) or one.”
“concisely, briefly, cut short” (from suntemno, “to cut in pieces,” sun, used intensively, temno, “to cut”), occurs in the speech of Tertullus, Act 24:4.