Lean
רָזֶהStrong’s H7330razeh (ra-zeh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Razeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “lean”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.”
Meaning
- Lean
How it's translated
- lean 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רָזֶה razeh · lean
lean
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lean” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEAN, verb intransitive
[Gr., Latin clino.]
- To deviate or move from a straight or perpendicular line; or to be in a position thus deviating.
- To incline or propend; to tend toward.
- To bend or incline so as to rest on something; as, to lean against a wall or a pillar; to lean on the arm of another.
- To bend; to be in a bending posture.
All definitions and other forms of “lean”
LEAN, verb transitive
- To incline; to cause to lean
- To conceal. [Not in use.]
LEAN, adjective
[Latin lenis, and Eng. slender.]
- Wanting flesh; meager; not fat; as a lean body; a lean man or animal.
- Not rich; destitute of good qualities; bare; barren; as lean earth.
- Low; poor; in opposition to rich or great; as a lean action. [Unusual.]
- Barren of thought; destitute of that which improves or entertains; jejune; as a lean discourse or dissertation.
LEAN, noun
That part of flesh which consists of muscle without the fat.
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.