4591  ma`at  maw-at'

 a primitive root; properly, 
to pare off, i.e. lessen; 
intransitively, to be (or 
causatively, to make) small 
or few (or figuratively, 
ineffective):--suffer to 
decrease, diminish, (be, X 
borrow a, give, make) few (in 
number, -ness), gather least 
(little), be (seem) little, 
(X give the) less, be 
minished, bring to nothing.