KJV dictionary & concordance
A person unusually small in bodily stature.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 21:20
Complete exact-word concordance
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
Or crooke backt, or a dwarfe, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scuruy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken:
1611 marginal noteOr, too slender.
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Historical English dictionary sources
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.
