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# אָבַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H75

**feed** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

feed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/75/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָבַס: vb. feed, fatten [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/75/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feed, fatten (Mish. id.;? Ass. \[abâsu\] DlW 46) Pt. pass. fattened, אָבוּס of ox Pr 15:17; אֲבוּסִים of fowl 1 K 5:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fattened (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/#tree)

ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good a.portion of.vegetable\[s\] and love \[is\].there more than.an.ox fattened and hatred \[is\].with it

*JPS 1917:* Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

[1 Kings 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/#tree)

עֲשָׂרָ֨ה בָקָ֜ר בְּרִאִ֗ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים בָּקָ֛ר רְעִ֖י וּמֵ֣אָה צֹ֑אן לְ֠בַד מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל וּצְבִי֙ וְיַחְמ֔וּר וּבַרְבֻּרִ֖ים אֲבוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* ten cattle fat and twenty cattle pasture and one.hundred sheep apart from deer and gazelle and roe-deer and birds fattened

*JPS 1917:* ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/75.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/75/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).