Word Forms
These forms come from “remnant” and change to fit the sentence.
- remnantbase form
- remnantsplural
remnant
WEB 75 appearances
KJV 92 appearances
A remnant is a small part or group that is left over after a big trouble or hard time.
Biblical Usage
In the Bible, God often saves a small group of His people when bad things happen. This small group is called a remnant. God keeps them safe so they can continue to trust Him and start again.
WEB Representative Scriptures
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.Genesis 45:7 (WEB)
A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.Isaiah 10:21 (WEB)
Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.Romans 11:5 (WEB)
KJV Representative Scriptures
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.1 Kings 22:46 (KJV)
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.2 Kings 19:30 (KJV)
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:Isaiah 37:31 (KJV)