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Dwarf

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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DWARF is the rendering in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] of daq , a word ( Leviticus 21:20 ) denoting one of the physical disqualifications by which a priest was unfitted for service. The word means thin, lean, small . The conjecture that it here means a dwarf is plausible. But others regard it as meaning an unnaturally thin man a consumptive, perhaps.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Dwarf'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​d/dwarf.html. 1909.
 
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