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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Dwarf

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Dwarf

A lean or emaciated person (Leviticus 21:20).


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dwarf

DWARF, noun

1. A general name for an animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of the species or kind. A man that never grows beyond two or three feet in highth, is a dwarf This word when used alone usually refers to the human species, but sometimes to other animals. When it is applied to plants, it is more generally used in composition; as a dwarf-tree; dwarf-elder.

2. An attendant on a lady or knight in romances.

DWARF, verb transitive To hinder from growing to the natural size; to lessen; to make or keep small.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dwarfish

DWARFISH, adjective Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; low; petty; despicable; as a dwarfish animal; a dwarfish shrub.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dwarfishly

DWARFISHLY, adverb Like a dwarf.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dwarfishness

DWARFISHNESS, noun Smallness of stature; littleness of size.


Naves Topical Index
Dwarfs

Forbidden to be priests
Leviticus 21:20