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Thin

רַקStrong’s H7534

raq

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

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Raq is the Hebrew word usually translated “thin” and “thin of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:”
Genesis 41:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Adj
How it's translated
  • thin 2
  • and thin of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 3

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

רַק raq · thin

adj thin, lean

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.]

  1. 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.
  2. Rare; not dense; applied to fluids or to soft mixtures; as thin blood; thin milk; thin air.
  3. 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.
  4. Not full or well grown.“Seven thin ears” Genesis 41:6
All definitions and other forms of “thin”
  1. Slim; small; slender; lean.
  2. Exile; small; fine; not full.
  3. Not thick or close; of a loose texture; not impervious to the sight; as a thin vail.
  4. Not crowded or well stocked; not abounding.
  5. 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.]

    1. To make thin; to make rare or less thick; to attenuate; as, to thin the blood.
    2. To make less close, crowded or numerous; as, to thin the ranks of an enemy; to thin the trees or shrubs of a thicket.
    3. 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.