Lean
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to be laid up, to lie," is used of reclining at table, and translated "leaning (on Jesus' bosom)" in the AV of John 13:23 , RV, "reclining" (for John 13:25 see No. 2). In John 13:28 , it is translated "at the table," lit., "of (those) reclining." See Guest , Recline , Sit , Table (at the).
lit., "to fall back" (ana, "back," pipto, "to fall"), is used of reclining at a repast and translated "leaning back, (as he was, on Jesus' breast)" in John 13:25 , RV (the AV follows the mss. which have epipipto, and renders it "lying"); in John 21:20 , "leaned back," the Apostle's reminder of the same event in his experience. See Sit.
King James Dictionary [2]
LEAN, Gr., L. clino.
1. To deviate or move from a straight or perpendicular line or to be in a position thus deviating. We say, a column leans to the north or to the east it leans to the right or left. 2. To incline or propend to tend toward.
They delight rather to lean to their old customs -
3. To bend or incline so as to rest on something as, to lean against a wall or a pillar to lean on the arm of another. 4. To bend to be in a bending posture.
LEAN,
1. To incline to cause to lean. 2. To conceal. Not in use.
LEAN, a. L. lenis, and Eng. slender.
1. Wanting flesh meager not fat as a lean body a lean man or animal. 2. Not rich destitute of good qualities bare barren as lean earth. 3. Low poor in opposition to rich or great as a lean action. Unusual. 4. Barren of thought destitute of that which improves or entertains jejune as a lean discourse or dissertation.
LEAN, n. That part of flesh which consists of muscle without the fat.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
(2): ( n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.
(3): ( v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
(4): ( v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
(5): ( v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
(6): ( v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
(7): ( n.) A collection made by gleaning.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Judges 8:2 (a) By this figure Gideon was telling the men of Ephraim that they had reaped a greater harvest by capturing Oreb and Zeeb than he had obtained in capturing or killing the rest of the army.
Jeremiah 6:9 (b) This figure represents the thorough work of the enemies of the people of Judah when they invaded the land and carried them away as prisoners.
