Leanness
רָזוֹןStrong’s H7332razon (ra-zon)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Razon is the Hebrew word usually translated “wasting disease”, “leanness” and “scantness”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.”
Meaning
- Leanness, scantness, wastingleanness · wasting (of disease) · scantness (of measure)
How it's translated
- a wasting disease 1
- leanness 1
- scantness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
רָזוֹן razon · leanness
1) leanness, scantness, wasting 1a) leanness 1b) wasting (of disease) 1c) scantness (of measure)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leanness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LE'ANNESS, noun
- Destitution of fat; want of flesh; thinness of body; meagerness; applied to animals.
- Want of matter; poverty; emptiness; as the leanness of a purse.
- In Scripture, want of grace and spiritual comfort.“He sent leanness into their soul” Psalms 106:15
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.