Flake
King James Dictionary [1]
FLAKE, n. L. floccus Gr. Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr. The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.
1. A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather. This is a flake, lock or flock of snow. 2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried. 3. A layer or stratum as a flake of flesh or tallow.
Job 41 .
4. A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off. 5. Any scaly matter in layers any mass cleaving off in scales.
Little flakes of scurf.
6. A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.
White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead. It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.
FLAKE, To form into flakes.
FLAKE, To break or separate in layers to peel or scale off. We more usually say, to flake off.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To form into flakes.
(2): ( n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(3): ( n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(4): ( n.) A paling; a hurdle.
(5): ( n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(6): ( v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
(7): ( n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(8): ( n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
(9): ( n.) A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
flāk ( מפל , mappāl , a word of uncertain meaning): It is used in the sense of "refuse (husks) of the wheat" in Amos 8:6 . With regard to the body we find it used in Job 41:23 in the description of leviathan (the crocodile): "The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved." Baethgen in Kautzsch's translation of the Old Testament translates " Wampen ," i.e. the collops or lateral folds of flesh and armored skin. A better translation would perhaps be: "the horny epidermic scales" of the body, differentiated from the bony dermal scutes of the back (Hebrew "channels of shields," "courses of scales"), which are mentioned in Job 41:15 margin.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
is the rendering in the A. V. at Job 41:15 (" the Flakes of his [i.e. leviathan's] flesh are joined together, דָּבֵקוּ , Have Clung, i.e. are rigid), for מִפָּל , Mappal', something Pendulous (elsewhere only Amos 8:6, for Refuse of grain, as that which falls away in winnowing, i.e. chaff), referring to the dewlaps or flabby parts on the belly of the crocodile (q.v.), which are firmly attached to the body, instead of loosely hanging as in the ox.
