Skin
זָגStrong’s H2085zag
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zag is the Hebrew word usually translated “skin”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.”
Meaning
- (meaning uncertain)name of some insignificant product of the vine, forbidden to Nazarites, perhaps the stem or skin of the grape
How it's translated
- skin 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
זָג zag · skin
1) (meaning uncertain) 1a) name of some insignificant product of the vine, forbidden to Nazarites, perhaps the stem or skin of the grape
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “skin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SKIN, noun
- The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide.
- A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.
- The body; the person; in ludicrous language
- The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
All definitions and other forms of “skin”
SKIN, verb transitive
- To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.
- To cover with skin
- to cover superficially.
SKIN, verb intransitive
To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.
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.