Thin
דַּקStrong’s H1851daq
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daq is the Hebrew word usually translated “thin”, “thin of” and “fine”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.”
Meaning
- Thin, small, fine, gauntthin · small, fine
How it's translated
- thin 7
- and thin of 2
- fine 2
- a thin 1
- soft 1
- like fine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Leviticus 3
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- 1 Kings 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:4And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:6And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:23And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
- Genesis 41:24And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
- Exodus 16:14And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Hebrew dictionary
דַּק daq · thin
1) thin, small, fine, gaunt 1a) thin 1b) small, fine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIN, adjective
[Latin tenuis; Gr. narrow.]
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to the opposite; as a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
- Rare; not dense; applied to fluids or to soft mixtures; as thin blood; thin milk; thin air.
- Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals that compose the thing in a close or compact state; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin A thin audience in church is not uncommon.
- Not full or well grown.“Seven thin ears” Genesis 41:6
All definitions and other forms of “thin”
- Slim; small; slender; lean.
- Exile; small; fine; not full.
- Not thick or close; of a loose texture; not impervious to the sight; as a thin vail.
- Not crowded or well stocked; not abounding.
- Slight; not sufficient for a covering; as a thin disguise.
THIN, adverb
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state; as seed sown thin
THIN, verb transitive
[Latin tenuo. See Attenuate.]
- To make thin; to make rare or less thick; to attenuate; as, to thin the blood.
- To make less close, crowded or numerous; as, to thin the ranks of an enemy; to thin the trees or shrubs of a thicket.
- To attenuate; to rarefy; to make less dense; as, to thin the air; to thin the vapors.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.