Fin
סְנַפִּירStrong’s H5579senappir (se-nap-pir)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Senappir is the Hebrew word usually translated “fin”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.”
Meaning
- Fin
How it's translated
- fin 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Deuteronomy 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- Leviticus 11:12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- Deuteronomy 14:9These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
- Deuteronomy 14:10And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Hebrew dictionary
סְנַפִּיר senappir · fin
fin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIN, noun
[Latin pinna or penna. The sense is probably a shoot, or it is from diminishing. See Fine.]
All definitions and other forms of “fin”
FIN, verb transitive
To carve or cut up a chub.
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.