Bible Dictionary: Gaunt

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

Strong's Hebrew

1565. galmud -- hard, barren
... barren. Word Origin probably from galam Definition hard, barren NASB Word
Usage barren (3), gaunt (1). desolate, solitary. Probably ...
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7534. raq -- thin, only, altogether, surely
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition thin, only, altogether, surely NASB Word
Usage alone* (4), except (4), except* (1), gaunt* (1), however (6), lean (2 ...
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1851. daq -- thin, small, fine
... Word Origin from daqaq Definition thin, small, fine NASB Word Usage dwarf (1), fine
(3), fine dust (1), finely ground (1), gaunt* (2), gentle (1), thin (5). ...
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1320. basar -- flesh
... Word Origin from basar Definition flesh NASB Word Usage anyone* (1), bodies (2),
body (39), fatter* (1), flesh (176), gaunt* (3), lustful* (1), man (1 ...
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Library

Edwin and Paulinus
... The Conversion of Northumbria. The black-hair'd gaunt Paulinus By ruddy Edwin
stood:" "Bow down, O king of Deira, Before the blessed Rood! ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/edwin and paulinus.htm

The Thunderbolt Averted
... Many of them had not washed far years. Their features were gaunt and grim,
their gestures uncouth, repellent, yet commanding. Their ...
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Juventus Mundi
... away, Till they stiffened into clay, And the ruffian rode away: Swooping o'er the
tainted ground, Carrion vultures gathered round, And the gaunt hyenas ran ...
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The Rash Builder
... Christian discipleship. III. Further, note the failures. The tower of the
rash builder stands a gaunt, staring ruin. Whosoever throws ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the rash builder.htm

The Making of a Nation
... Mr. Lincoln, as I saw him every morning, in the carpet slippers he wore in the house
and the black clothes no tailor could make really fit his gaunt, bony frame ...
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Introduction.
... Contrast him, for example, with the stern majesty of Moses, austere and simple as
the tables of stone; or with the unvarying tone in the gaunt strength of ...
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John's Doubts of Jesus, and Jesus' Praise of John
... If the gaunt ascetic, with his girdle of camel's hair and his coarse fare, had been
a self-indulgent sybarite, his voice would never have shaken a nation. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/johns doubts of jesus and.htm

The Highway of Holiness
... your heart.". A Low Door. At the top of the hill, guarding the way to the
Highway, stands so gaunt and grim ... the Cross. There ...
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The Children of the Poor.
... Temptation is a fierce legion; and death looks no more terrible under a Babylonian
helmet, than it does upon the gaunt faces of men who die upon the bare floor ...
/.../chapin/humanity in the city/discourse vii the children of.htm

The "Little Knife" Insurrection
... Let a government be unsuccessful; let a dynasty see the gaunt hand of famine, or
the poison hand of pestilence laid on the land, that is the mute voice of ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/vi the little knife insurrection.htm

Thesaurus

Gaunt (7 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Gaunt (7 Occurrences). Genesis ... So I awoke. (See
RSV). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They ...
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Gauls

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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry
ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. (WEB JPS ASV YLT). ...
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Gauntness (1 Occurrence)

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Gnaw (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Gnaw (4 Occurrences). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack
and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. ...
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Wasteness (4 Occurrences)
... Wasteness (4 Occurrences). Job 30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw
the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. (See JPS ASV). ...
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Wastelands (4 Occurrences)
... Wastelands (4 Occurrences). Job 30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw
the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. (See NIV). ...
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Thin (39 Occurrences)
... 4. (superl.) Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. 5. (superl.) Not stout;
slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease. ...
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Rawboned (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.
Multi-Version Concordance Rawboned (1 Occurrence). Genesis ...
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Roamed (2 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the
dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. (See NIV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Gaunt (7 Occurrences)

Genesis 41:3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 41:4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 41:19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
(See NAS RSV)

Genesis 41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
(See RSV)

Genesis 41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
(See RSV)

Job 30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
(See RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Gaunt

Related Terms

Gauls

Gloom (29 Occurrences)

Gauntness (1 Occurrence)

Gnaw (4 Occurrences)

Wasteness (4 Occurrences)

Wastelands (4 Occurrences)

Thin (39 Occurrences)