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lean

Meaning of “lean”

Sense 1: Thin, spare, poor, meagre, or lacking richness and abundance. Sense 2: To rest, incline, or bear weight upon a support. Sense 3: By figure, to depend, trust, or rely upon someone or something.

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First occurrence: Genesis 41:20

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Numbers 13:20
And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
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1611 witness · Numbers 13:20 · retained source text

And what the land is, whether it be fat or leane, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land: (Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes)

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