King James Bible Dictionary

THIN, adjective [Latin tenuis; Gr. narrow.]

1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to the opposite; as a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

2. Rare; not dense; applied to fluids or to soft mixtures; as thin blood; thin milk; thin air.

In the day, when the air is more thin

3. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals that compose the thing in a close or compact state; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin A thin audience in church is not uncommon. Important legislative business should not be transacted in a thin house.

4. Not full or well grown.

Seven thin ears. Genesis 41:6.

5. Slim; small; slender; lean. A person becomes thin by disease. Some animals are naturally thin

6. Exile; small; fine; not full.

THIN hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.

7. Not thick or close; of a loose texture; not impervious to the sight; as a thin vail.

8. Not crowded or well stocked; not abounding.

Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.

9. Slight; not sufficient for a covering; as a thin disguise.

THIN, adverb Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state; as seed sown thin

Spain is thin sown as people.

THIN, verb transitive [Latin tenuo. See Attenuate.]

1. To make thin; to make rare or less thick; to attenuate; as, to thin the blood.

2. To make less close, crowded or numerous; as, to thin the ranks of an enemy; to thin the trees or shrubs of a thicket.

3. To attenuate; to rarefy; to make less dense; as, to thin the air; to thin the vapors.

THINE, pronominal adj. Thy; belonging to thee; relating to thee; being the property of thee. It was formerly used for thy, before a vowel.

Then thou mightest eat grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure. Deuteronomy 32:1.

But in common usage, thy is now used before a vowel in all cases.

The principal use of thine now is when a verb is interposed between this word and the noun to which it refers. I will not take any thing that is thine thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.

In the following passage, thine is used as a substitute for thy righteousness.

I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. Psalms 71:2.

In some cases, it is preceded by the sign of the possessive case, like nouns, and is then also to be considered as a substitute.

If any of thine be driven out to the utmost parts of heaven-- Deuteronomy 30:2.

It is to be observed that thine like thou, is used only in the solemn style. In familiar and common language, your and yours are always used in the singular number as well as the plural.

THING, noun [The primary sense of thing is that which comes, falls or happens, like event, from Latin evenio.]

1. An event or action; that which happens or falls out, or that which is done, told or proposed. This is the general signification of the word in the Scriptures; as after these things, that is, events.

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. Genesis 21:11.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord. Genesis 24:50.

And Jacob said, all these things are against me. Gen 42.

I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matthew 21:24.

These things said Esaias when he saw his glory. John 12:16.

In learning French, choose such books as will teach you things as well as language.

2. Any substance; that which is created; any particular article or commodity.

He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt-- Gen 42.

They took the things which Micah had made. Judges 18:7.

3. An animal; as every living thing; every creeping thing Gen 1.

[This application of the word is improper, but common in popular and vulgar language.]

4. A portion or part; something.

Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom--

5. In contempt.

I have a thing in prose.

6. Used of persons in contempt.

See, sons, what things you are,

The poor thing sigh'd.

I'll be this abject thing no more.

7. Used in a sense of honor.

I see thee here,

Thou noble thing!

THINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive thought, pronoun thaut. [Latin duco.]

1. To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ideas in the mind.

--For that I am

I know, because I think

These are not matters to be slightly thought on.

2. To judge; to conclude; to hold as a settled opinion. I think it will rain tomorrow. I think it not best to proceed on our journey.

Let them marry to whom they think best. Numbers 36:6.

3. To intend.

Thou thought'st to help me.

I thought to promote thee to great honor. Numbers 24:11.

4. To imagine; to suppose; to fancy.

Edmund, I think is gone

In pity of his misery, to dispatch

His 'nighted life.

Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. 1 Corinthians 10:12.

5. To muse; to meditate.

While Peter thought on the vision--Acts 10:1.

THINK much, speak little.

6. To reflect; to recollect or call to mind.

And when Peter thought thereon, he wept. Mark 14:64.

7. To consider; to deliberate. think how this thing could happen.

He thought within himself, saying, what shall I do?

Luke 12:40.

8. To presume.

THINK not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father-- Matthew 3:9.

9. To believe; to esteem.

To think on or upon, to muse on; to meditate on.

If there by any virtue, and if there by any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8.

1. To light on by meditation. He has just thought on an expedient that will answer the purpose.

2. To remember with favor.

THINK upon me, my God, for good. Nehemiah 5:19.

To think of, to have ideas come into the mind. He thought of what you told him. I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.

To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem.

THINK, verb transitive To conceive; to imagine.

Charity--thinketh no evil. 1 Corinthians 13:5.

1. To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Nor think superfluous others' aid.

2. To seem or appear, as in the phrases, me thinketh or methinks, and methought. These are genuine Saxon phrases, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions, me is actually in the dative case; almost the only instance remaining in the language. Sax 'genoh thuht, ' satis visum est, it appeared enough or sufficient; 'me thineth, ' mihi videtur, it seems to me; I perceive.

To think much, to grudge.

He thought not much to clothe his enemies.

To think much of, to hold in high esteem.

To think scorn, to disdain. Esther 3:1.

THINK'ER, noun One who thinks; but chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker

THINK'ING, participle present tense Having ideas; supposing; judging; imagining; intending; meditating.

1. adjective Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas.

Man is a thinking being.

THINK'ING, noun Imagination; cogitation; judgment.

I heard a bird so sing,

Whose music, to my thinking pleas'd the king.

THIN'LY, adverb [from thin.] In a loose scattered manner; not thickly; as ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

THIN'NESS, noun The state of being thin; smallness of extent from one side or surface to the opposite; as the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate; the thinness of the skin.

1. Tenuity; rareness; as the thinness of air or other fluid.

2. A state approaching to fluidity, or even fluidity; opposed to spissitude; as the thinness of honey, of white wash or of paint.

3. Exility; as the thinness of a point.

4. Rareness; a scattered state; paucity; as the thinness of trees in a forest; the thinness of inhabitants.